Case Name: The People of the State of New York ex rel. Glen Telephone Company, Respondent, v. Ephraim Failing and Others, as Assessors of the Town of Minden, Montgomery County, New York, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1909-01
Citations: 130 A.D. 888
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York ex rel. Glen Telephone Company, Respondent, v. Ephraim Failing and Others, as Assessors of the Town of Minden, Montgomery County, New York, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 130
Pages: 888–890

Head Matter:
Third Department,
January, 1909.
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Glen Telephone Company, Respondent, v. Ephraim Failing and Others, as Assessors of the Town of Minden, Montgomery County, New York, Appellants.
Tax — assessment against telephone company — certiora/ri—poles and wires on ’private land — when assessors bound by affidavits of complainants.
Appeal by the defendants, the Assessors of the Town of Minden, Montgomery County, New York, from a final order entered in the clerk’s office of Fulton county on the 29th of January, .1908, striking from the assessment roll of said town a tax of 82,500 against the relator. ,

Opinion:
Final order modified, upon opinion in People ex rel. Glen Telephone Co. v Hall (ante, p. 360), decided herewith, by striking therefrom the extra allowance. and as so modified affirmed, without costs to either party. All concurred, except Smith, P. J., who wrote for reversal in opinion, in which Cochrane, J., concurred.