People ex rel. Hermann v. Kaufman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Ferdinand' Hermann,' from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 19th day of April, 1901, denying the relator’s motion on the petition for a writ of certiorari, on the writ and the return to cancel the assessment of his land in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester county, and appointing a referee to inquiz-e into the question of overvaluation.
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Appeal by the relator, Ferdinand' Hermann,' from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 19th day of April, 1901, denying the relator’s motion on the petition for a writ of certiorari, on the writ and the return to cancel the assessment of his land in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester county, and appointing a referee to inquiz-e into the question of overvaluation. The certiorari was to review the .assessment of the relator’s lands.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The appellant’s brief is very misleadizig. The principal az-gument in it is that the court below erred in not cancelling the assess*600ment of the appellant’s land on the' motion therefor on the petition, writ and return, on the ground that.the petitioner being a, non-resident, he was nevertheless assessed in the resident list. But when we turn to the statement filed with the assessors on grievance" day by the appellant, and to.the petition for the writ of certiorari, we find no such- grievance or illegality complained of. On the contrary, the appellant’s sole complaint therein is that…
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