People Ex Rel. Mayor of New York v. Board of Assessors
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made December 14, 1887, which affirmed an order of Special Term, which set aside and vacated on certiorari the decision of the Board of Assessors of the city of Brooklyn in assessing certain premises in said city, owned by the relator and used and occupied as a landing for the Fulton street ferry and leased by it to the Union Ferry Company.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made December 14, 1887, which affirmed an order of Special Term, which set aside and vacated on certiorari the decision of the Board of Assessors of the city of Brooklyn in assessing certain premises in said city, owned by the relator and used and occupied as a landing for the Fulton street ferry and leased by it to the Union Ferry Company. (Reported below, 47 Hun, 383.) The facts, so far as material to the questions discussed, are stated in the opinion. If taxable the land is properly taxed in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
We deem it unnecessary to examine at length the questions presented by this record in view of the elaborate and satisfactory opinions pronounced at the Special and General Terms, and shall content ourselves with a brief statement of what seem to us controlling considerations which justify and require an affirmance of the orders below.
It is to be taken as a conceded fact that the title to the landing place at the foot of Fulton street, Brooklyn, which is the subject of the assessment, is vested in the mayor, alder! men and commonalty of the city of New York. The tax ■proceedings are based on…
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