Ruland v. Tuthill
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Henry P. Tuthill, as county treasurer, and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk on or about the 31st day of January, 1919, granting a temporary injunction restraining, during the pendency of the action, the collection of any school tax from union free school district No. 9 of the town of Southold, Suffolk county, in excess of $1.38 for each…
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Appeal by the defendants, Henry P. Tuthill, as county treasurer, and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk on or about the 31st day of January, 1919, granting a temporary injunction restraining, during the pendency of the action, the collection of any school tax from union free school district No. 9 of the town of Southold, Suffolk county, in excess of $1.38 for each $100 of assessed value.
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmar, J.:
We find no difficulty in ascertaining the meaning and application of chapter 518 of the Laws of 1918 (adding to Education Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 16; Laws of 1910, chap. 140], §§ 410a, 410b), when read in the light of the preceding legislation, and with knowledge of the conditions to which it was intended to apply. By chapter 328 of the Laws of 1917 (adding to Education Law, art. ll-A),all the school districts of a town, excepting certain union free school districts, were consolidated into a single school unit on and after August 1,1917. The school tax, which had theretofore…
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