Betz v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The .City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 17th day of July, 1905, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Nassau Trial Term without á jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
By chapter 379 of the Laws of 1899, which went into effect April 21, 1899, a small part of the territory of the Borough of Queens, City of New York, was detached from the city and made a part of the adjoining Town of Hempstead in the County of Nassau. Nevertheless, in levying the annual tax of the city for that year in the following August it was included by mistake. On October 2, 1899, the plaintiff’s agent, paid the amount thus: set against her property to the receiver of taxes of the city. Being in doubt whether he had to pay taxes on the property in the city of in the Town of…
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