Legal Opinion
People ex rel. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. Mealey
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 12, 1918PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Appeal, . in each of the above-entitled proceedings, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered August 6,1917, which affirmed an order of Special Term quashing a writ of certiorari and dismissing the petition of the relator for the review of an assessment levied against it for purpose of taxation for the year 1911 upon its property in the city of Troy. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
In 1911 the assessors of the city of Troy placed on the assessment roll of said city an assessment as follows:
“ Troy Union Eailroad Co., Boston and Maine Eailroad Co., Delaware and Hudson Eailroad Co., New York Central and Hudson Eiver Eailroad Co.
“ The lands of - roadbed and adjacent thereto in the several wards of the City, with rails, superstructures, depot buildings and appurtenances being all the railroad property in the City of Troy located between Madison St. on the south, Hoosick St. on the north and the approach of the Delaware and Hudson Company’s bridge on the west, excepting that…
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- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railway Co. v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
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