Case Name: BOROUGH OF CLOSTER, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENT AND HACKENSACK WATER COMPANY, DEFENDANTS; BOROUGH OF HAWORTH, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENT ET AL., DEFENDANTS; BOROUGH OF EMERSON, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXER AND ASSESSMENT ET AL., DEFENDANTS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1927-01-19
Citations: 5 N.J. Misc. 94
Docket Number: No. 231; No. 232; No. 233
Parties: BOROUGH OF CLOSTER, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENT AND HACKENSACK WATER COMPANY, DEFENDANTS. BOROUGH OF HAWORTH, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENT ET AL., DEFENDANTS. BOROUGH OF EMERSON, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXER AND ASSESSMENT ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 94–95

Head Matter:
No. 231.
BOROUGH OF CLOSTER, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENT AND HACKENSACK WATER COMPANY, DEFENDANTS. BOROUGH OF HAWORTH, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENT ET AL., DEFENDANTS. BOROUGH OF EMERSON, PROSECUTOR, v. STATE BOARD OF TAXER AND ASSESSMENT ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
No. 232.
No. 233.
Argued October 5, 1926
Decided January 19, 1927.
Before Justices Paekbe, Black and Campbell.
For the prosecutors, F. Hamilton Reeve and Frank H. Hennessy.
For the defendants, Wright, Fancier Burgh c§ McCarthy.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Rules to show cause were allowed in each of the three cases why a writ of certiorari should not issue to review the judgment of the slate board of taxes and assessment cancelling the assessments levied against the Hackensack Water Company by each of the three boroughs, viz.: By the borough of Closter an assessment of $80,000, called reservoir, intake and improvements. By the borough of Haworth an assessment of $117,700, called reservoir and intake. By the borough of Emerson an assessment of $150,000, called reservoir and improvements. Those assessments were canceled by the state board of taxes and assessment on the ground that they were duplicate assessments. With this conclusion of the state board we agree. The state board filed a memorandum stating its reasons for the action taken. That memorandum in part is as follows: "We are now asked by the respondent to add this assessment [i. e., the borough of Closter] to the value of the lands already assessed and on which taxes have been paid. This should not be done, as there is nothing before us to indicate whether or not such a course would increase the assessment of the lands beyond their true value. There was no testimony taken relative to the value of these lands. The appellant contends that we are dealing with a duplicate assessment, while the respondent insists that the board should correct the misnomer, revise the assessment and add the amount in dispute to the assessed value of the land. We prefer to regard this assessment as a duplication, with the result that it is canceled and the action of the Bergen county board of taxation reversed." We concur in the above reasons of the state board. Hence, the judgment in each of the three cases is affirmed and the rule to show cause why a certiorari should not issue heretofore granted in each ease is discharged.