860 Executive Towers, Inc. v. Board of Assessors

In these tax certiorari proceedings, the petitioners move for an order pursuant to CPLR 602 (subd. [a]) and CPLR 603 and section 710 of the Real Property Tax Law providing that a joint trial be conducted in the above proceedings on the separate issue of inequality.

Petitioners, all represented by the same counsel, contend that such joint trial is warranted because a common question of fact, the issue of inequality, is involved in each of the proceedings. The determination of this one issue in one action, they contend, will avoid the delay which would result from a series of separate trials,…