People ex rel. Jones v. Feitner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by 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 Kings County Special Term, bearing date the 31st day of March, 1898, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding the defendants to forthwith reduce the assessed value of the relator’s property for each of the years- 1892,…
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Appeal by 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 Kings County Special Term, bearing date the 31st day of March, 1898, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding the defendants to forthwith reduce the assessed value of the relator’s property for each of the years- 1892, 1.893* 1894* 1895 and 1896, from the sum •of $4,000 to $400, and to refund to the relator the proportionate part of the tax…
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
The relator showed, by her petition, that she was the widow of Jeptha A. Jones, who died at the city of Brooklyn on January 1, 1891. Jones was a veteran of the late war, and was granted by the Federal government a pension on account of wounds received during service. In 1881 Jones purchased certain real estate in the city of Brooklyn, on account of the payment for which he applied the sum of $3,600, which he had received as pension money. But the property was conveyed to his wife, the relator, who has ever since continued to own the same. From the year 1892 to 1897 the property has…
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