In re Brooklyn Children's Aid Society
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by William A. Prendergast, as comptroller, etc., and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 14th day of September, 1914, granting petitioner’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Bürr, J.:
In 1878 the Legislature passed an act discharging from all assessments for local improvements in the city of Brooklyn certain classes of charitable and benevolent institutions. (Laws of 1878, chap. 364.) In 1886 an amendatory act was passed. (Laws of 1886, chap. 622.) By this act section 1 of the former act was amended so as to read as follows: “ The real property situate in the county of Kings, now owned, or which hereafter may be owned by any hospital, orphan asylum, house of industry or other charitable corporation, society or institution, which has for its object the reformation…
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