People ex rel. Bijur v. Barker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by -the relator, Moses Bijur, 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 17th day of August, 1897, dismissing a writ of certiorari issued to review an assessment for taxation of the-relator.
1Opinion of the Court
The -following is the opinion of Beekman, J.:
Beekman, J.:
I am not disposed to interfere with the conclnsioh of the commissioners that the. indebtedness of relator’s firm is to be regarded, to the extent at least of the value of the tobacco on hand, as having been contracted or incurred in the purchase of the same. While the methods adopted by the partners in the transaction of their business may render it difficult, if not impossible, to show that a specific sum was borrowed for the purpose of paying for a particular lot of tobacco, still the fact remains that the borrowed money which it was…
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