PEOPLE EX REL. LYFORD v. ALLEN


286 A.D. 621 (1955)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Frederic E. Lyford, as Trustee of The Property of New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company, Respondent, v. James C. Allen et al., as Assessors of The Town of Fallsburgh, County of Sullivan, Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

November 16, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lazarus I. Levine for appellants.

Elbert N. Oakes for respondent.

FOSTER, P. J., COON, HALPERN and ZELLER, JJ., concur.


BERGAN, J.

This proceeding reviews tax assessments in the town of Fallsburgh on real property of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company in seven successive years, 1944 to 1950-51. The assessments ranged from $1,300,960 in the first of these tax years to $380,230 in the last.

During all this time and for several years earlier, the railroad has been in reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy...

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