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The People of the State of New York ex rel. The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, Respondent and Appellant, v. Barzillai G. Neff et al., Constituting the Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, Appellants and Respondents, 1898 — 156 N.Y. 701 · caselaw · US
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The People of the State of New York ex rel. The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, Respondent and Appellant, v. Barzillai G. Neff et al., Constituting the Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, Appellants and Respondents
156 N.Y. 701·New York Court of Appeals·1898·NY
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Opinion
The People of the State of New York ex rel. The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, Respondent and Appellant, v. Barzillai G. Neff et al., Constituting the Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, Appellants and Respondents.
People ex rel. N. T. & N. J. Tel. Oo. v. Neff, 15 App. Div. 8, affirmed.
(Argued June 6, 1898;
decided October 4, 1898.)
Cross-appeals from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered March 2, 1897, modifying an order of Special Term in a proceeding by certiorari to review an assessment of the relator for the year 1896.
Alexander Cameron, Melville Egleston and Henry Yonge for relator.
Almet F. Jenks for defendants.
[MAJORITY]
Order affirmed, with costs, on opinion below.
All concur.