Gilfeather v. Grout
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Edward M. Grout, as comptroller of the citjr of Hew York, 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 Kings on the 30th day of September, 1904, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
The petitioner is the owner of certain premises situated at Coney Island, known 'on the assessment map of the grading of Surf avenue as assessriient No. 35. In a proceeding instituted in 1891 for' the' grading of Surf avenue the .property of the petitioner was assessed for the sum of $2,843.10. This' assessment remained unpaid, and in 1899 the Legislature of this State enacted chapter 522 of the laws of that, year, which provided that, upon the payment of one-third of the original assessment the various officials having a record of such assessment upon the hooks and documents in…
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