People ex rel. Harway Improvement Co. v. Berry

The relator owned certain land at Gravesend Beach, Brooklyn, N. Y. The city levied taxes upon that property for the years 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925. The relator claimed that the taxes thus assessed were erroneous in amount, in that they included therein an element representing the value of certain structures thereon, which structures were erected by third parties who entered upon the land pursuant to permits given to them by the city of New York under a- claim by the city that it had the *566right to issue such permits and allow such structures to be erected because of the city’s claimed…