People Ex Rel. 243 Corporation v. Miller

Section 904 of the Charter of the City of New York (Laws of 1901, ch. 466, as amd. [formerly section 895], as it read until superseded by section 163 of the New York City Charter, effective January 1, 1938) prescribed that an application for correction of an assessment should be in writing but did not specify signature or subscription as a requisite. In People ex rel. Schwarz v. Miller (281 N. Y. 554) we said that the provision of the statute would naturally be read as a direction complete in itself and held that such an application need not be verified. In the present case the written…