Brevoort v. . the City of Brooklyn
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made July 18, 1879, which reversed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint and which sustained the demurrer and directed judgment thereon. (Reported below, 18 Hun, 383.) The substance of the complaint is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
The complaint alleges that at a tax sale held in the city of Brooklyn in June, 1864, for unpaid taxes assessed in 3 862, the plaintiff purchased several lots of land and paid therefor in the aggregate $342.66 and that it was “ then and there expressly agreed by the defendant with the plaintiff that if there was any irregularity in the proceedings prior to said sale the said purchase-money should be repaid to the plaintiff, provided the certificates which were then and there delivered to the plaintiff and numbered be surrendered to the collector; ” that the taxes assessed, on the lots so…
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