Legal Opinion
State v. Mayor of Jersey City
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 15, 1887PublishedCited by 5 opinions
On certiorari. In matter of tax.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Man Syckel, J.
This certiorari is brought to review an assessment for taxes for the years 1881 and 1882 on parts of blocks 78 and 79, in size two hundred and six feet by one hundred and forty-six, in Jersey City.
These lands were conveyed by the State of New Jersey to the United Railroad and Canal Companies by an act of the legislature entitled “ An act to enable the United Railroad and Canal Companies to increase their depot and terminal facilities at Jersey City,” passed March 30th, 1868. Pamph. L., p. 551.
In this conveyance the lands conveyed, of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dodge v. WoolseySupreme Court of the United States · 1856
3Cited by5 opinions
- Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Co. v. City of Grand RapidsMichigan Supreme Court · 1904
- National Refining Co. v. St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1916
- City of Jersey City v. Morris & Essex RailroadNew Jersey Tax Court · 1946
- Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Co. v. City of Grand RapidsMichigan Supreme Court · 1904
- Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Co. v. City of Grand RapidsMichigan Supreme Court · 1904