Wainright v. Craig

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Magie, J.

This certiorari brings up assessments made by the tax assessor of the township of Wall, in Monmouth county, upon prosecutors, for state and county tax, road tax, poor tax, poll tax, school tax and incidentals tax, for the year 1888.

Since the case shows that prosecutors were residents in that township, and, therefore, subject, under the general tax laws, to such assessments, it devolves on them to plainly establish the error of the assessments their writ brings before us.

Their contention is that, although such taxes may lawfully be imposed on…