People ex rel. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. v. Ganley
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Washington county. Certiorari, on the relation of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, to review an assessment of the relator’s real estate in the village of Fort Edward for the year 1887. The assessors appeal from an order reducing the assessment.
1Opinion of the CourtLearned, P. J.
This is an appeal from the order of the special term made ■on the return to a certiorari and on the evidence taken reducing the assessment of the relator’s real estate from $45,000 to $12,610. The first thing to be noticed in these proceedings is that the petition for the certiorari charges that the real property on the assessment roll, other than that of the relator, *564has been assessed, not at its full value, but only at about one-fifth thereof, and that the assessors, in their return to the writ, admit this, and further assert, under oath, that the property of the relator, and the other real…
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