The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-18
THOSE ASSESSMENT APPEALS
CONFERENCE BETWEEN SPEClAL
COMMITTEE AND ATTORNEYS,

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Held Last Night But No Satfsfac actory
Adjustment Yet Agreed Upon-Board
of Relief Fails to Find Sworn List Of
Certain Properties and Holds That
| Appeals Cannot be Taken.
| The special tax committee appointed
| by the court Of common council to con-
fer with the corporation counsel and
the assessors concerning the tax appeal
cases now pending in the superior
| court held meeting last night and
conferred with the attorneys Of those
property owners who have appealed
| from assessments. The attorneys who
appeared and the property owners
whom they represent were as follows:
Attorney c. #. Bollman for Fl. W. Sen.
edict, owner of the Benedict building,
assessed at S63,1S3. and the building In
which Polls theater is located assessed
at $4,000; Attorney Henry G. Newton.
who appeared for the owners of Bowl
ing hall; Attorney John w. Bristol, who
represents A. f. Woods, owner OF
Woods block at the corner of Church
and George streets, assessed at $63,S34;
Louis Osterweiss who owns the build
ing at No. 1S Church street assessed at
$4,000 and the building, at 81 Church
street assessed at $4,000 and the build
ing S42-S46 Chapel street assessed at
$73,600, George W. H. Hughes, owner
of the Hyperion thkater assessed at $99,-
PSI, Hannah ]. Benedict owner Of the
Winchester building assessed at $685.
400, Street building assessed at $4,000
and the Hoadley building assessed at
$149,7 Susan M. Day, Mrs. Mary r. Day
and Henry M. Day owners Of the house
!, at 956 Chapel street, Ellen s. Phelps
owner Of the Glebe building assessed at
$122560; Attorney J. P. Pigott repre-
senting P. j. Cronin owner of the Trae-
ger hotel property on Chapel street.
1t was suggested by members Of the
committee that an agreement might
be arrived at with those appealing
whereby the assessments would be fixed
at some figure between the present as
sessment and the amount claimed by
the appellants. Some of the latter said
that they would agree to this PROPOSE
tion while others refused to.
Ex-State Senator T. J. Fox was pres
ent at the meeting and he thought Char
the better plan would be to fight the
causes out in court and let the courts
decide what the assessments should be.
None Of those attorneys who appeared
stated that they considered the ASSESS
ments on the properties which they
represented to be more than -two-thirds
Of the real value Of the properties, but
Attorney John w. Bristol said that
the assessments should be laid through
out the City on the same basis. II
property was to be assessed at two
thirds of its real value, all property
should be assessed on that basis He
objected to some central property being
SO assessed while other property was
assessed at much less than two-ti1irds
of the real value.
No action was taken by the commits
tee after the consultation last night,
Another meeting will be held on date
to be selected by the chairman. After
the committee has fully considered the
appeals a report and recommendation
will be made to the common council,
which will then recommend to the cor
poration counsel what course to pursue.
The committee was appointed atthis
suggestion.
There seems to be among the mem-
bers of the committee an opinion that
the cases should be settled in the courts
and that this is the only way they can
be settled under the circumstances.
eli .,;txr
will be completed by April l and the
tax for 1901, which will be laid In Mo- 4
venber next will be laid on the grand
ist made up from the reassesenent,
The assessments which are now ap-
oealed from are therefore those on
which taxes for 1898 and 1899 were
aid.
A member of the special COMMITTEES
# the common council and a gentle-
nan thoroughly familiar with the
status of the assessment appeal matter
aid last evening that he thought that
hose who have appeared will not in
he event of no relief being granted
elsewhere, fight the appeal out in court.
lie said that the expense attached to
UGH course would amount to more
han it would to pay the tax for those
wo years on the assessments which
re objected to.
The board of relief was in session
esterday and last evening. The board
ound last evening that no list, inciud-
ng the Winchester building, the Street
uilding and the Hoadley building, had
cen sworn to this year, and it was the
pinion Of the members that in view Of
he fact no appeal could be taken while
0 per cent should under the statutory
revision be added to the assessment
laced on those buildings in 1898. These
acts were called to the attention OF
.ttorney Bristol.
During the discussion which took
lace before the special committee last
light Corporation Counsel Robertson
lated that in his opinion Church street
roperty was worth $1,000 per foot.
Captain James NJ Townsend appear
before the board Of relief and pro-
,sted against the appraisal Of two
ieces Of property. He said that this
ear the Chamberlain building at the
,rner of Orange and Crown streets
as appraised at $52,712. while in 1897
was appraised at 100000. The build
e at $40 Chapel street was appraised
lis year at $27,040, and in 1897 at $12,-
Q.
Benjamin R. English appeared before