People ex rel. Trustees of Masonic Hall & Asylum Fund v. Miller

This is a certiorari proceeding wherein relator seeks to have canceled and set aside an assessment of taxes made and levied for the year 1935 upon certain real estate owned by it in the city of New York, viz., at Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue and extending through to Twenty-fourth street, in the borough of Manhattan. Said property is known on defendants’ tax maps as Lot 1 (Twenty-third street) and Lot 76 (Twenty-fourth street). Relator thus proceeds upon the ground that its said property is wholly exempt from taxation.

The commissioners of taxes and assessments assessed this property on…