Hudson Motor Lodge, Inc. v. City of Jersey City

In this appeal from real property assessments, the taxpayer violated R. 8:6-l(b)(l)(ii). The rule requires that, in cases where no pretrial conference is held, a copy of the appraisal report of an evaluation expert must be furnished an adversary ten days prior to the date of trial. In the present case, the taxpayer’s expert’s report was provided on the day of trial. The City moved to suppress the report and the expert’s testimony and the court, noting that this was the second preemptory trial listing for the case, the third listing overall, granted the motion. In the absence of proof to…