Brown v. Ward

Plaintiffs, taxpayers in the town of Taylor, Cortland county, seek a judgment adjudicating as illegal and void a tax of $20,116.98 levied against the town by the board of supervisors for the cost of construction by the county of a concrete bridge across the Otselic river and for the repair of an adjacent culvert known as the Martin Wire bridge. These improvements are wholly within the town of Taylor. In the construction and in the distribution of the cost between the town and the county the board assumed to act pursuant to authority conferred upon it by the provisions of section 262-a of the…