West Ridgelawn Cemetery v. City of Clifton

Quinn, President.

These are appeals from judgments of the Passaic County Board of Taxation, dismissing applications for exemption from taxation of certain lands and improvements alleged to constitute non-taxable cemetery property. The property in question was duly assessed for taxation for the year 1940 by the City of Clifton, as four separate parcels. For the sake of a clear understanding of the questions presented, it is necessary briefly to review some of the recent history of the petitioner and to refer to the tax1 appeals prosecuted by it from assessments for the year 1938, upon two of…