People ex rel. Trowbridge v. McNamara
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Cornelia P. Trowbridge, from .an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Queens County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 13th day of March, 1897, denying the relator’s motion for an order reducing an assessment levied upon her property by the respondents, and directing a reference to take proof of the value of the property.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This was a hearing on a certiorari to review an alleged excessive. assessment of various pieces of real estate owned by the relator. On grievance day the relator submitted to the assessors an affidavit, showing in detail the valuation of the various pieces of property, stating that they were assessed in excess of their value and, also, higher proportionately than other real property on the same assessment roll. It also stated that the amount of the assessment was a. very great advance over the assessments of previous years. It further detailed *19special circumstances relative to the…
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