People ex rel. Dreier v. Feitner

This is a proceeding under the general tax law of the state to review an assessment for the taxation of personal property in the hands of relators for the year 1899. An assessment was originally entered in the borough of Brooklyn for the sum of $1,000,000, and after a hearing before the commissioners was confirmed, at that amount. The assessment was in form against Henry Edward Dreier, Dorothea A. Dreier, and Ludwig Dreier, as executors and trustees of the estate of Theodore Dreier. It is claimed by the relators that this assessment is illegal and erroneous, for the reason that it has been…