People ex rel. Dexter v. Palmer
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Franklin county. Certiorari by Orrando P. Dexter to review an assessment of some of relator’s property for the year 1894, made by Elijah A. Palmer and others, as assessors of the town of Waverly. The writ was dismissed, and relator appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMayham, P. J.
The respondents, in their return to the writ of certiorari in this matter, state, among other things, that they assessed the relator’s property “at its true value, as it would be appraised in the payment of a just debt, due from a solvent debtor.” The case was not heard at special term upon the petition of the relator and the return, but a reference was awarded, and there was proof taken before the referee, tending to show that the real estate of the town of Waverly was not assessed at its full and true value in the year in which the assessment in question was taken, but that it was that year…
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