People ex rel. Brooklyn Elevated Railroad v. Board of Assessors

The relator presented its petition, alleging that it was illegally and erroneously assessed, and prayed for the issue of a writ of certiorari to review such assessment. On its petition the writ was granted. The petition, besides allegations of other illegality and error in the assessments, stated that other real and personal property in the city upon the same roll was assessed at a less proportionate *394value than the real estate of the petitioner. The petition failed to specify the instances in which such inequality existed and the extent thereof, as required by section 250 of chapter 908 of…