Farr v. Nordman

This suit, brought here in abortive effort to save that which judging by tax assessments must be a home of the humble, will undoubtedly be known in years to come as the “thirty-six cent tax case.” It arrives in a court of equity grown cold and aloof from the warmth and worth of its maxims — a court that, to engage Mr. Justice Cardozo’s expression, plunges the knife with averted gaze, convinced as it deplores and performs the sacrificial rite that it has no other choice — a court that wrings pious hands as it records upon corporal oath inability “to find a way to grant them (the plaintiff…