People ex rel. Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Campbell
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari, on the relation of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, to review the determination of Frank Campbell, comptroller, in refusing to revise or readjust a tax settled against relat- or under Laws 1880, c. 542, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
1Opinion of the CourtPutnam, J.
We are called upon in this case to review the action of the comptroller in declining to revise the tax settled against relator under the provisions of chapter 542, Laws 1880, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. The relator suggests that, since the amendatory acts of 1885 and 1889, under section 20, the comptroller is required to return to a certiorari the accounts and all the evidence submitted to him, and his decision, if found erroneous in fact or law, must be corrected by this court. This position is well taken, but it-is held that the decision of the comptroller as to…
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- People v. . Horn Silver Mining Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1887
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