People ex rel. Manhattan Storage & Warehouse Co. v. Lilly

(dissenting) A consolidated tax certiorari proceeding to review assessments on the relator’s real property resulted in a decision by the Special Term on May 14,1947, reducing the assessments complained of but in the exercise of the court’s discretion (Tax Law, § 294) denying costs to the relator.

On July 7,1947, relator’s attorneys served on the corporation counsel a proposed order with notice of settlement for July 9, 1947. On July 17th a notation appeared in the New York Law Journal to the effect that an order in this proceeding had been signed by the court. The only modification made in the…