Legal Opinion

People Ex Rel. Sands v. . Feitner

New York Court of Appeals

Decided February 24, 1903PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 28, 1902, wliich affirmed an order of Special Term dismissing a writ of certiorari to review' the proceedings of the defendants in assessing personal property of the relator.

1Opinion of the Court

Parker, Ch. J.

This record does not present a single question now open to review in this court.

The controversy grows out of an assessment against relator of $50,000 for personal property. He complained of it to the taxing authorities, and asked them to eliminate the assessment from the roll, which they refused to do. Thereupon he instituted the proceeding authorized by statute to review the assessment, alleging in the petition that his entire taxable property was $194,556, while his lawful indebtedness was $258,499. The indebtedness was entirely owing to a firm of stockbrokers, who had…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Trustees of Amherst College v. RitchNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
  2. People Ex Rel. Manhattan Railway Co. v. BarkerNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
  3. People Ex Rel. Miller v. . WursterNew York Court of Appeals · 1896

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. People Ex Rel. American Sugar Refining Co. v. SextonNew York Court of Appeals · 1937
  2. People Ex Rel. Krulish v. . FornesNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
  3. In Re City of New York Relative to Acquiring Title to Lands Required for the Opening of Avenue " D "New York Court of Appeals · 1910
  4. People Ex Rel. Krulish v. . FornesNew York Court of Appeals · 1903

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