State v. Chamberlain
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Certiorari to set aside an assessment of taxes for the year-1891, made against the prosecutor by the assessor of Englewood township, Bergen county. Argued at February Term, 1§92, before Justices Magie and Weets.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Werts, J.
The prosecutor was incorporated September-2d, 1890. After its incorporation it acquired title to about five and one-half acres of land, and erected thereon a school-building, the entire cost being about $15,000. The school was kept and managed by W. Wilberforce Smith, under an agreement between him and the corporation, which provided that Smith should, for a specified term of years, keep and maintain' a high school for boys, with a sufficient corps of teachers and assistants. It was not a free school. The rates of tuition varied from $110 to…
2Cited by1 opinion
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