Legal Opinion
People ex rel. New York School for the Deaf v. Townsend
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 26, 1940PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. Addison Young,
Official Referee. The issue in these proceedings is whether the annual town levies made against relator’s property for its share of the costs of construction and maintenance of the Knollwood Water District, the Fairview Ash and Garbage Disposal District, the Fairview Fire District and the Park Ridge Sewer District are legal or illegal.
The relator conducts a charitable institution and is concededly, under subdivision 6 of section 4 of the Tax Law, exempt from the payment of the annual State, county and town taxes, i. e.. general taxes.
*907The relator does not claim exemption on…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Roosevelt Hospital v. Mayor, Aldermen & Commonalty of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 6 v. Town of GreenburghNew York Court of Appeals · 1938
- Nuns of the Order of St. Dominic v. Town of HuntingtonNew York Court of Appeals · 1935
3Cited by5 opinions
- Rector of Christ Church v. Town of EastchesterNew York Supreme Court · 1950
- Board of Education v. Village of AlexanderNew York Supreme Court · 1949
- County of Westchester v. Town of HarrisonNew York Supreme Court · 1951
- People ex rel. New York School for Deaf v. TownsendAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1941
- Morris v. County Board of AssessorsNew York Court of Appeals · 1974