Kuvin v. City of Newark

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

This is the return of a rule to show cause why either a peremptory or an alternative writ of mandamus should not issue directing the City of Newark and Vincent J. Murphy, receiver, to cancel the third and fourth quarters of the 1941 taxes as "shown on a tax bill covering the property of prosecutor in the City of Newark. Prosecutor took title, on or about July 25th, 1941, in partial reliance upon an official certificate of search for municipal liens. The property so acquired, and upon which the disputed tax was levied, consisted of a plot of…