Beekwill Realty Corp. v. City of New York

To remove the cloud on title, plaintiff strives to have the tax levy for 1927 adjudged invalid and illegal as against its parcel purchased from the defendant after it had been ordered sold by the Transit Commission and the commission of the sinking fund of the city of New York. To justify this position it must be discovered that on October 1, 1926, the property in question was held by the city for public use. To be explicit, if the plaintiff’s property on October 1, 1926, was not held by the city of New York for subway purposes, the levy must be upheld and the plaintiff’s plea rejected.…