People Ex Rel. N.Y.C., Etc., Co. v. . Gourley

The questions certified to us, which, only, this appeal brings up, relate to the duties of the state board of tax commissioners, when fixing the valuation of the relator's special franchises in the town of Haverstraw, and to the powers of these village assessors, after the statement of the state board, as filed with the clerk of the town, shall have been delivered to them, as the officials charged with the duty of making up the local assessment rolls. The West Shore railroad, of which the relator is the lessee, passes, within the town of Haverstraw, through the two incorporated villages of…