People ex rel. New York Clearing House Building Co. v. Barker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, the New York Clearing House Building Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of November, 1897, upon an order made at the New York Special Term and entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of November, 1897, dismissing a writ of certiorari issued to review the proceedings of the defendants as commissioners of taxes and assessments of the…
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Appeal by the relator, the New York Clearing House Building Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of November, 1897, upon an order made at the New York Special Term and entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of November, 1897, dismissing a writ of certiorari issued to review the proceedings of the defendants as commissioners of taxes and assessments of the city and county of New York, in assessing the capital stock of the relator for the year 1896.
1Opinion of the Court
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, on opinion of Beekman, J., in court below.
Present—■ Barrett, Rumsey, Ingraham and McLaughlin, JJ.
The following is the opinion of Beekman, J.:
Beekman, J.:
The relator contends that the commissioners of taxes had no right to consider or estimate any other value of its real estate than the assessed value in determining the amount of its capital which was subject to taxation under chapter 456 of the Laws of 1857. By the terms of that statute, “the capital stock of every company, liable to taxation, except such part of it as shall have been…
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