Matter of Board of Education
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered April 4, 1901, which reversed an order of Special Term directing the board of education to pay to the appellant herein such sums as said board had retained out of an award in condemnation proceedings to pay taxes alleged to be a charge on the lands condemned. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered April 4, 1901, which reversed an order of Special Term directing the board of education to pay to the appellant herein such sums as said board had retained out of an award in condemnation proceedings to pay taxes alleged to be a charge on the lands condemned. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. An owner of unproductive property, taken in condemnation proceedings for public purposes, is not chargeable with taxes levied subsequent to the date of the making of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, Oh. J.
The board of education of the borough of Brooklyn by resolution dated May 23,1900, appropriated and set apart as a school site certain lands belonging to the appellants, and such force was by statute given to the resolution that four months after the filing of the oaths of the commissioners of estimate, to be appointed by the Supreme Court, the title to the said lands and premises would vest in the city of Mew York, whatever might be the stage of the condemnation proceedings in which the commissioners had been appointed. On. the 20th of the following August the commissioners…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- In re Department of Public ParksNew York Supreme Court · 1889
- In re Mayor of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
- In Re the Voluntary Dissolution of Hulbert Bros.New York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Matter of Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty, City of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1901
3Cited by4 opinions
- Matter of City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
- Buckhout v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- Matter of PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1927
- Buckhout v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903