Whitney Industries, Inc. v. Board of Assessors

These four independent petitioners seek a review under article 7 of the Real Property Tax Law of certain assessments of lands owned by them in the Town of Long Lake, Hamilton County. The matters were argued at the same time since they all pertain to certain alleged illegal assessments made by the Assessors for the 1966 tax roll. The objections to the various assessments, hoivever, are not identical in all four petitions.

The general objections to the assessments are: (1) that the assessments of certain of the lands were illegally increased in violation of section 480 of the Real Property Tax…