People ex rel. H. B. Claflin Co. v. Feitner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, The H. B. Claflin Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term andi entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of August, 1900, dismissing a writ of certiorari theretofore issued in the proceeding to review the assessment for taxation made against the relator.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The relator is a foreign corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, doing no business in that State so* far as appears, but having actually, althought not nominally, its principal place of business in the State of New York, where a large portion of its transactions are had. On the second Monday of January, 1899, an assessment was made against the property of the corporation to the amount of $9,000,000. Upon complaint and an application the assessment was reduced to $1,000,000 and to correct the assessment thus reduced this writ was sued out, the relator…
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