People Ex Rel. Citizens' Gas-Light Co. v. Board of Assessors

(dissenting.) — This is an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, in the Second Judicial District, quashing a writ of certiorari, with costs.

On a petition of the Relators, alleging certain errors in the assessment roll made by the said Board for the year 1866, the Supreme Court made an order that a writ of certiorari issue requiring the Board to return its proceedings in that behalf to the said Court.

A return having been made, and the parties heard on the merits, the Court quashed the writ. The Relators were incorporated as a gas company, under the general act passed in 1848.

In June,…