Manhattan Ry. Co. v. Mayor of New York

Wallace, ,T.

The complainants move for a preliminary injunction to restrain the collection of taxes assessed by the commissioners of taxes and assessments, in the city of New York, on the real estate of the New York Elevated Eailroad Company, for the years 1879 to 1882, inclusive, upon the capital stock and personal property of that *196corporation for the year 1880, and upon the capital stock and personal property of the Manhattan Railway Company for the years 1880, 1881, and 1882. Under agreements by which the latter corporation leased the property of the New York Elevated, the Manhattan Railway…