State Board of Assessors v. Central Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On certiorari to the Supreme Court. For opinion of the Supreme Court, see antep. 1.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellok.
The judgments of the Supreme Court which are brought up for review by the proceedings in these cases set aside and annul, as being entirely void, the assessment and tax levied upon the respective defendants under the act “for the taxation of railroad and canal property,” approved April 10th, 1884. Pamph. L., p. 142. The ground upon which those judgments are based is that the act is in contravention of the constitutional requirement, adopted in the amendments of 1875, that “property shall be assessed for taxes under general laws and by uniform rules, according to its true…
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