People ex rel. Twenty-Third Street Railway Co. v. Feitnrr
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Thomas L. Feitner and others, composing the board of taxes and assessments of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the. 11th day of November, 1903, confirming the report of a referee appointed to take testimony in a certiorari proceeding and vacating an assessment upon the relator’s stock and surplus.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The relator claiming to be aggrieved by an assessment of its capital stock and surplus by taxation for the year 1900 sued out a writ of certiorari to review the action of the board of assessors. The proceeding came on for trial at a Special Term in Januarv, 1901, and upon the petition, the writ and the return thereto the court decided, as recited in the order, that it appearing to the court that testimony is necessary for the proper disposition of the matter,” a. referee should be appointed to take testimony and report to the court his findings of fact and conclusions of law. At the…
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