People ex rel. Adelphi College v. Wells
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Adelphi College, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 4th day of April, 1904, dismissing a writ of certiorari theretofore issued herein to review an assessment.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Barlett, J. :
The question in this case is whether its “ Players’ Field,” a piece of property in the borough of Brooklyn, principally used by the relator for athletic exercises on the part of its students, is exempt from taxation under the provisions of the Tax Law, which exempts the real property of a corporation organized exclusively for educational purposes and used exclusively for carrying out thereupon one or more of such purposes. (Laws of 1896, chap. 908, § 4, subd. 7, as amd. by Laws of 1897, chap. 371.)
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