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179 A.D. 395

In re Maltbie

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1917-06-08

Appeals by the Lobsitz Mills Company and another, from orders of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of January, 1917, denying motions to vacate the orders for the examination of the appellants herein in supplementary proceedings under section 299 of the Tax Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 60; Laws of 1909, chap. 62).

Decided 1917-06-08

Page, J.:

¶1This court has decided adversely to the contentions of the moving parties in Matter of Bruere (174 App. Div. 298). The counsel for the appellants claims that these cases are to be *396distinguished from that case, in that in Matter of Bruereit was shown that the Coca Cola Company had during the revision period filed a statement in the tax department setting forth that it had an office for the transaction of business and had capital invested in this State, thereby submitting itself to the jurisdiction of the assessors. Whereas, in the instant cases the corporations had not so submitted themselves.

¶2Jurisdiction of the court to issue the order for the examination does not rest on the appearance of the corporation before the tax department, but upon the fact that the tax has been returned by the proper collector, uncollected for want of personal property out of which to collect the same. (Tax Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 60; Laws of 1909, chap. 62], §299.)

¶3The corporation’s rights are adequately safeguarded by section 301 of the said act (as amd. by Laws of 1909, chap. 374).

¶4The orders should be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

¶5Clarke, P. J., Dowling, Smith and Shearn, JJ., concurred.

¶6Orders affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements; time of examinations to be fixed in orders. Orders to be settled on notice.

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