Yale University v. City of New Haven

This case arose as an appeal by the plaintiff from a decision of the board of tax review of the defendant city which denied the plaintiff’s application for relief from the action of the defendant’s assessor in adding to the defendant’s 1969 tax list premises known as 149 York Street, New Haven, together with the personal property located therein. By amendment, the appeal, before it was heard, included the same addition to the tax lists of 1970, 1971, and 1972. The real property was used by the plaintiff exclusively to house the Yale University Press and for the storage and display of part of…