People ex rel. Robinson v. Banfield

This is a proceeding by certiorari, taken under section 250, chapter 908, of the Laws of 1896. Vol. 1, p. 882.

Prior to the institution of these proceedings by the relator, an illegal assessment had been made against the property held by her as trustee for her children Lucius and Emma D. Robinson.

On a former appeal from said assessment, in 1899, the assess*14ment Avas set aside by the court as illegal, probably upon the theory that the assessment was made against the estate and not against the trustee, and inferentially also for the reason that the assessment was unequal and, exorbitant. These…