GOFF v. SHULTIS


26 N.Y.2d 240 (1970)

Percy Goff, Respondent, v. Lester W. Shultis et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 5, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis B. Scheinman for Herbert L. George, appellant.

No appearance for Lester M. Shultis, appellant.

Vernon Murphy and John B. Wilkie for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges SCILEPPI, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON concur; Judge BURKE taking no part.


BERGAN, J.

The 1930 tax assessment of wild forest land in the Town of Olive in Ulster County on which defendant George's tax deed is based is erroneous in several respects, including both compass directions of boundary lines and the quantity of land assessed.

Yet the singular physical location of the assessed land in the Town of Olive bounded on the west side...

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