Case ID: njl_131/html/0264-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bodine, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, ACTING THROUGH THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, PROSECUTOR, v. GEORGE I. TILTON, RECEIVER OF TAXES OF TRENTON, RESPONDENT.
    Submitted January 18, 1944
    Decided March 16, 1944.
    Before Brogan, Chief Justice, and Justices Bodine and Colie.
    For the prosecutor, David T. Wilentz.
    
    For the respondent, Louis Josephson and John J. Connell.
    
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bodine, J.

In 1892, the State Board of Education acquired premises situate at 55 North Clinton Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey. In April of 1937, it entered into an agreement to sell the property. The agreement was not consummated until March 17th, 1943. In the meantime, the city purchased the interest of the state’s vendee at tax sale for the taxes for the year 1940.

It is conceded that the state’s lands are exempted from taxation under R. S. 54:4-3.3.

The vendee, however, was not exempt. Its' equitable interest was taxable as any property in the city was taxable. The immunity extends to the state and not to its vendee. The city can enforce its tax lien against the equitable interest of the purchaser. Since it now has the entire title, the city may sell the entire estate unless it is redeemed. Hance v. New Brunswick, 7 N. J. Mis. R. 610; New Brunswick v. United States, 276 U. S. 547.

The writ will be dismissed. Costs do not run against the. state.