In re Mary Immaculate School of Eagle Park
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the Board of Assessors of the Town of Ossining from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 12th day of July, 1918, granting an application to strike from the assessment roll of said town for the year 1917 the real property assessment of the petitioner, on the ground that said real property is exempt from taxation.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
The relator is an educational institution for young women, holding a charter granted on September 16, 1915, by the *6Regents of the University of the State of New York. It acquired an old estate in Ossining of about ninety-nine acres. It conducts a boarding school for pay pupils. The teachers receive no salary. The land, formerly a farm, extends from the Albany Post road westward to the Hudson River railroad. Across the Albany. Post road are about three acres, from which relator derives its supply of drinking water. A frame building covers and protects this reservoir. The main tract…
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