Case Name: In the Matter of Clay Dome & Golf Center, LLC, Appellant, v. Board of Assessors of Town of Clay et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2002-12-30
Citations: 300 A.D.2d 1092
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Clay Dome & Golf Center, LLC, Appellant, v Board of Assessors of Town of Clay et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 300
Pages: 1092–1093

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Clay Dome & Golf Center, LLC, Appellant, v Board of Assessors of Town of Clay et al., Respondents.
[751 NYS2d 898]

Opinion:
—Appeal from that part of an order of Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Roy, J.), entered December 4, 2001, that granted the motion of respondent Liverpool Central School District to dismiss the petition against it.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted the motion of respondent Liverpool Central School District (District) to dismiss the petition against it in this RPTL article 7 proceeding based on petitioner's failure to comply with RPTL 708 (3) by timely mailing a copy of the petition to the District's superintendent. "The mistake or omission of petitioner's at torney does not constitute 'good cause shown' within the meaning of RPTL 708 (3) to excuse petitioner's failure to comply with that section" (Matter of First Source Fed. Credit Union v Stuhlman, 267 AD2d 1026, 1027, lv denied 95 NY2d 758). Present — Pigott, Jr., P.J., Green, Hayes, Scudder and Lawton, JJ.