Cornell University v. Board of Assessors

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court which dismissed, after joint trial before a Referee, the petitions in proceedings to review real property assessments for the years 1957, 1959 and 1960, with the result of sustaining the denials by respondent Board of Assessors of petitioner University’s applications for revision of the assessments by designating the assessed properties exempt as “real property of a corporation * * * organized exclusively for * * * educational * * * purposes * * * and used exclusively for carrying out thereupon one or more of such purposes either by the owning…