COVEY v. TOWN OF SOMERS

No. 380.

351 U.S. 141 (1956)

COVEY, COMMITTEE, v. TOWN OF SOMERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel M. Sprafkin argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief were Adolph I. King and Mandel Matthew Einhorn.

Otto E. Koegel argued the cause and filed a brief for appellee.

John R. Davison, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for the State of New York, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance. With him on the brief were Jacob K. Javits, Attorney General, and James O. Moore, Jr., Solicitor General.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.

The application of Article VII-A, Title 3, of the New York Tax Law to the mentally incompetent ward of appellant is challenged as being repugnant to the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The statute, in § 165 et seq., provides for the judicial foreclosure of tax liens on real property. The filing at the county clerk's office of a list of taxes delinquent...

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