MATTER OF FRANKLIN SHOPS, INC. v. VILL. ASSESSOR OF THE INC. VILL. OF HEMPSTEAD


15 A.D.2d 921 (1962)

In the Matter of Franklin Shops, Inc., et al., Petitioners, and William T. Hutcheson et al., Respondents, v. Village Assessor of the Incorporated Village of Hempstead et al., Appellants

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

March 5, 1962


Order, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements.

"The Tax Law relating to review of assessments is remedial in character and should be liberally construed to the end that the taxpayer's right to have his assessment reviewed should not be defeated by a technicality" (People ex rel. New York City Omnibus Corp. v. Miller, 282 N.Y. 5, 9; People ex rel. Denney v. Clark, 257 App. Div. 905). A petition is akin to a complaint in an...

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