Curnen v. . the Mayor’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

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1. ““The record is for the public; with the book no one but its owner has concern, and of itself, it avails nothing; there is, therefore, no analogy in the modes of treatment to which they may be subjected. The assessment-roll is akin to a judgment; both records, and each creating a lien to be enforced by subsequent proceedings, if the debt or duty is not otherwise discharged. (Mayor, etc., v. Colgate, supra.) If the latter is erroneously discharged, its lien cannot be restored so as to affect bona fide purchasers, or others standing in a similar relation, whose transactions were entered into in ignorance of the error, and in reliance upon the truth of the record. (King v. Harris, 34 N. Y. 330 .) The same rule applies here. There can be no doubt tbat tbe plaintiff was led by tbe entry upon the roll to believe that tbe assessments bad been paid, and if they are enforced now, it will be'to her prejudice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Seward v. Fisken