People Ex Rel. Oak Hill Cemetery Ass'n v. Pratt
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, made on the first Tuesday of June, 1891, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying an application of the relator to review a determination of the assessors of' the city of Rochester. The facts, so-far as material, are stated in the opinion. The court erred in deciding that the lands in question were not exempt from taxation.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, made on the first Tuesday of June, 1891, which affirmed an order of Special Term denying an application of the relator to review a determination of the assessors of' the city of Rochester. The facts, so-far as material, are stated in the opinion. The court erred in deciding that the lands in question were not exempt from taxation. (Laws of 1887, chap. 133, § 10.) The legal conclusions of the court below evidently were based upon the finding of fact in respect of advertising and procuring the consent…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
The relator, The Oak Hill Cemetery Association, complains that its land, situated in the city of Bochester, was illegally assessed in the year 1890, and it has instituted this proceeding to procure the assessment to be stricken from the assessment-roll as illegal and unauthorized. It was incorporated under the act, chapter 133 of the Laws of 1847, on the 16th day of March, 1889. At that time there was an ordinance of the city of Bochester passed in 1887, prohibiting the burial of dead human bodies within the city limits, except in certain cemeteries specified. On the 19th day of March, 1889,…
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