Legal Opinion
Kent v. Common Council
New York Supreme Court
Decided February 15, 1903Published
Action by a taxpayer.
1Opinion of the CourtForbes, J.
This action has now been tried three times. Two former decisions and judgments have been reversed by the Appellate Division. This is the third trial.
This is an action brought by a taxpayer of the city of Binghamton, to restrain the enforcement of a tax levied by said city for paving a portion of Court street, known as the “East End,” upon which the Binghamton Kailroad Company now operates a double track, surface trolley road.
In 1868 what was then known as the Port Dickinson & Binghamton Kailroad Company obtained a charter, under chapter 501 of the Laws of 1868, to construct and operate a…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- The People v. . the Albany and Vermont Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Folmsbee v. . City of AmsterdamNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
- Conway v. . City of RochesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Sherman v. . FosterNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- People v. Broadway RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
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