State v. Davis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The prosecutor is a tax-payer in the township of Sayreville, Middlesex county. On the ground that the property of another tax-payer in the township was assessed at too low a valuation, he applied to the commissioners of appeal to increase the same under section 2 of the supplement to the Tax act, approved March 9th, 1848. Rev., p. 1149. The commissioners having declined to increase the valuation, the prosecutor sued out the present writ of certiorari, in order to have the valuation raised, and a motion is now made to dismiss the writ.

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