Ward v. City of Brooklyn
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal By the plaintiff, John. M. Ward, from a judgment of the. Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 29th day of April, 1898, upon the decision-of the court, rendered- after-a trial at the Kings' 'County Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the ¡merits.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The-plaintiff, as owner and in the undivided possession..of..certain lands situated in the twenty-sixth ward- of the city of Brooklyn, was assessed for taxes thereon in the years 1893 and 1891. These taxes *431not being paid, the land was sold for such non-payment and thereafter the registrar of arrears delivered to the purchaser a certificate of such sale and the same was duly recorded in the registrar’s office. By this action the said assessments and the said certificate of sale are sought to be set aside and canceled and the same adjudged to be void, as constituting a cloud upon the…
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- Crooke v. . AndrewsNew York Court of Appeals · 1869
- County of Monroe v. . City of RochesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Colman v. . ShattuckNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
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