People ex rel. New York Hospital v. Purdy
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Westchester county. Certiorari on the relation of the Society of the New York Hospital, a corporation, against Elijah Purdy and others, assessors of the town of White .Plains, to review an assessment for taxes for the year 1889 upon a farm of relator in that town. From an order dismissing the writ of certiorari, relator appeals.
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Appeal from special term, Westchester county. Certiorari on the relation of the Society of the New York Hospital, a corporation, against Elijah Purdy and others, assessors of the town of White .Plains, to review an assessment for taxes for the year 1889 upon a farm of relator in that town. From an order dismissing the writ of certiorari, relator appeals. Laws N. Y. 1889, c. 462, § 1, provides: “The portion of the property, real and personal, of the Society of the New York Hospital, a charitable corporation, now owned, or hereafter acquired, by it, and wherever situated, from which no income…
1Opinion of the CourtBarnard, P. J.
By chapter 466, Laws 1875, the real and personal property of the relator in the city and county of New York was made exempt from taxation if no income was derived from it, and the same was used exclusively for the purpose for which the relator was chartered. By chapter" 462, Laws 1889, this exemption was extended to property “ wherever situated, ” but under the same terms and conditions. The hospital has a farm of land in Westchester county exclusively used for the charter purposes of the society. The farm is not self-supporting, and food is sent from New York for the use of the patients…
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