Hoffman v. Sams

BAER, J —

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to the Judges of the Appeal Tax Court of Baltimore city.

The petition states that the petitioners, being the owners of certain property in Baltimore city, the improvements upon which were totally destroyed by fire in the conflagration of February 7, 1904, on the 29th day of July, 1904, applied to the defendants for an abatement,of the assessment of said improvement's for the year 1904, from and after said 7th day of February, 1904, and a proportioned abatement of the taxes for that year, but that “the defendants peremptorily refused to…