People ex rel. Shepard v. Griffin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Ernest Freeland Griffin and others, 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 10th day of July, 1923, canceling certain assessments upon the personal property of the petitioners, as executors, etc., of Jay Gould, deceased, for the year 1923, and striking such assessments from the assessment roll on the ground that the same were illegal and void.
1Opinion of the Court
Manning, J.:
Alleging that certain assessments attempted to be levied by the assessors of the village of Tarrytown upon the estate of Jay Gould deceased, were illegal and void, the relators — executors and trustees of the estate — procured a writ of certiorari to review such assessments. On the hearing the assessors made no return to the writ *138and in no way controverted the statements of the petition with reference to the alleged illegality, merely contenting themselves with the assertion that the petition was defective in that it failed to show that the relators had applied on “ grievance day…
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