People ex rel. Carman v. Lewis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Charles F. Lewis, as treasurer of Nassau county, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 22d day of October, 1904, directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
The order .appealed from directs that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue to compel the county treasurer of Nassau county to advertise and sell certain real estate situate in the said county upon which taxes for the years 1901, 1902 and 1903 remain unpaid, and restrains the county treasurer from including in said sale lands bid in by the county at the tax sale of 1902.
*409So far as the order directs a sale it is proper. Sections 150 and 151 of the Tax Law provide that whenever a tax charged on real estate situated in the county shall remain unpaid for six months from the first day of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Armstrong v. County of NassauAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905