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The People of the State of New York ex rel. The Brooklyn City Railroad Company et al., Respondents and Appellants, v. B. G. Neff et al., Composing the Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, Appellants and Respondents, 1897 — 154 N.Y. 763 · caselaw · US
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The People of the State of New York ex rel. The Brooklyn City Railroad Company et al., Respondents and Appellants, v. B. G. Neff et al., Composing the Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, Appellants and Respondents
154 N.Y. 763·New York Court of Appeals·1897·NY
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The People of the State of New York ex rel. The Brooklyn City Railroad Company et al., Respondents and Appellants, v. B. G. Neff et al., Composing the Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, Appellants and Respondents.
People ex rel. Brooklyn R. R. Co. v. Neff, 19 App. Div. 590, affirmed.
(Argued November 22, 1897;
decided December 7, 1897.)
Cross-appeals from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered August 3, 1897, which affirmed an order of Special Term setting aside an assessment made upon the capital stock of the relator and directing a reassessment.
Joseph A. Burr for defendants.
Henry Yonge, for relators.
[MAJORITY]
Order affirmed, with costs, on opinion below.
All concur, except Gray, J., not sitting.