People ex rel. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 30, 1909, which reversed an order of Special Term quashing a writ of certiorari and denying a motion to strike from the assessment roll of the village .of Haverstraw a special franchise assessment.
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 30, 1909, which reversed an order of Special Term quashing a writ of certiorari and denying a motion to strike from the assessment roll of the village .of Haverstraw a special franchise assessment. The relator sued out a writ of certiorari, in order that the action of the defendants, the assessors of the village of Haverstraw, might be reviewed in placing upon the assessment roll of the village a special franchise assessment of $16,800 against the West Shore…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The questions certified to us, which, only, this appeal brings up, relate to the duties of the state board of tax commissioners, when fixing the valuation of the relator’s special franchises in the town of Haverstraw, and to the powers of these village assessors, after the statement of the state board, as filed with the clerk of the town, shall ha been delivered to them, as the officials charged with the duty of making up the local assessment rolls. The West Shore *489railroad, of which the relator is the lessee, passes, within the town of Haverstraw, through the two incorporated villages of…
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