Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad v. Mayor of Newark

*61The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lippincott, J.

This is a proceeding taken under the two hundred and thirty-ninth section of the statute concerning taxes. Gen. Stat., p. 3332, § 239. It is taken upon a petition of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, alleging that certain property belonging to that company, in the city of Newark, used for railroad purposes, was, by the local assessors of that city, assessed for local taxation for the year 1895. For that year the railroad company returned the same property, with the exception of a small dwelling-house thereon, to the…