Young v. . Wenz
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 18, 1915, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 18, 1915, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The provisions of section 2 of chapter 171, Laws of 1893, for the publication of notice of the time and place of the computation of the annual installment assessment was directory and not jurisdictional. That notice is not essential or even material. Sections 959-963 of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCuddeback, J.
The plaintiff seeks in this action to foreclose a tax lien which he acquired by assignment from the city of New York. By an amendment to the city charter made in 1908 (Oh. 490), taxes and assessments upon land in the city of New York are not enforced by a sale of the land upon which they are liens, but the right of the city to receive the tax or assessment is sold for the lowest rate of interest at which any person will take the same, and will advance the amount of the lien. A tax lien so transferred "may be foreclosed the same as a mortgage upon real property.
The defendant Jacob Wenz is the…
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