People ex rel. New York Edison Co. v. Prendergast
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William A. Prendergast, as comptroller, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of December, 1917, granting relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Shearn, J.:
Appeal from an order directing a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the consideration, under section 246 of the Greater New York charter (Laws of 1901, chap. 466, added by Laws of 1907, chap. 601, as amd. by Laws of 1910, chap. 683), of relator’s claim for refund of a portion of taxes ■ assessed against certain real property owned by the relator and paid for the years 1905 to 1914 inclusive, in which assessment it is claimed there was included, either illegally or erroneously, the value of machinery owned, not by the relator, but by its lessee. The petition alleges that this…
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