Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban Railroad v. City of New York

Judgment reversed upon the law and the facts, with costs, and judgment *660directed in favor of plaintiffs for $16,050.51, with interest. The conclusions to which we have come are (I) that the evidence, by its clearly preponderating weight, establishes that the right to operate across the Williamsburg Bridge was included in the assessment of the railroad company’s special franchise for the year 1912, and that the bridge tolls paid were the subject of reduction from that tax under the provisions of section 48 of the Tax Law as then in force (People ex rel. Nassau Electric R. R. Co. v. Grout, 119…