Reister v. Town Board of Fleming

In this proceeding to review the action of the Town Board of the Town of Fleming, establishing a water district, the petitioners alleged that the petition presented to the Town Board did not comply with section 191 of the Town Law, in that it was not signed by the owners of at least one half of the assessed valuation of all the taxable property of the proposed district since men to whom property was assessed as though they were sole owners on the assessment roll signed and their wives did not, when, in fact, the property was owned by them as tenants by the entirety. Unless the entire *96assessed…