Legal Opinion

Matter of the Brooklyn Children's Aid v. Prendergast

New York Court of Appeals

Decided June 15, 1915PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 5, 1915, which affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the cancellation of certain assessments for local improvements levied against property of the petitioner, a charitable corporation.

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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 5, 1915, which affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the cancellation of certain assessments for local improvements levied against property of the petitioner, a charitable corporation. The respondent claimed that its property is exempt from assessments for local improvements under and by virtue of chapter 364 of the Laws of 1878, as amended by chapter 622 of the Laws of 1886; re-enacted (L. 1888, ch. 583, tit. 22, §…

1Opinion of the Court

Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscook, Collin, Cuddeback, Hogan, Cardozo and Seabury, JJ. Not sitting: Willard Bartlett, Ch. J.

2Cited by10 opinions

  1. In re Donner-Hanna Coke Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925
  2. Greater Poughkeepsie Library District v. Town of PoughkeepsieNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
  3. In re the City of New York Relative to Acquiring Title Wherever the Same Has Not Been Heretofore Acquired for the Same Purpose in Fee to the LandsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1940
  4. Durante v. EvansNew York Supreme Court · 1982
  5. Cook v. Up-To-Date Silk Yarn Dyeing Co.New York Supreme Court · 1935

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