People ex rel. Broadway Realty Co. v. Feitner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal 'by the defendants, Thomas L. Feitner and others, as commissioners of taxes and assessments of the city óf New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 22d day of January, 1901, denying a motion to quash a writ of certiorari to review the action of the tax commissioners in assessing for the purposes of taxation for the year-1899 certain real estate belonging to…
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Appeal 'by the defendants, Thomas L. Feitner and others, as commissioners of taxes and assessments of the city óf New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 22d day of January, 1901, denying a motion to quash a writ of certiorari to review the action of the tax commissioners in assessing for the purposes of taxation for the year-1899 certain real estate belonging to the relator and directing a reference of the issues raised by the ■ petition for the writ and the commissioners’ return…
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The relator claims that the action of the commissioners in fixing the assessment, so far as the same relates to his real estate, is erroneous, (1) by reason of overvaluation, and (2) inequality, in that the assessment was made at a higher proportionate valuation than the assessment of other real estate on the same tax roll for the same time. Many instances in which such alleged inequality exists, and the extent thereof, are set out in the petition or in the schedule annexed to and made a part of it.
The counsel for the appellants insists that the writ should have been quashed,…
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