Van Deventer v. . Long Island City
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made December 14,1891, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made December 14,1891, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The action of the assessors was invalid because they did not apply the principle or proceed in the manner prescribed by statute, in relation to the assessment and collection of taxes. (1 R. S. chap. 13, § 1; Tompkins v. Zee, 59 N. Y. 662; Schwinger v.…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
This is an equitable action to have certain city, county and state taxes laid upon plaintiff’s real estate in Long Island City in the years 1877 to and including the year 1886 and various sales thereunder declared void and canceled, on the ground that the taxes were illegally imposed. The grounds of the illegality are that a large quantity of real estate was intentionally omitted from the assessment rolls in each of such years, and that in the years 1882 and 1883 the assessor’s resolved that no personal property within the city should be assessed, and in pursuance of such resolution no person…
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