Pitts. Junction R. R. Co. v. Pitts.

These appeals by the City of Pittsburgh are from decrees in the suits brought by Pittsburgh Junction Railroad Company and by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in Pennsylvania to restrain the city from collecting certain taxes assessed against plaintiffs' real estate in the City of Pittsburgh; to decree the assessments void; and to direct the refund of taxes paid under protest. The decrees are in accord with the prayers of the bills but must be reversed.

The right to assess railroad real estate was conferred on the city by the local and special Act of January 4, 1859, P. L. 828, entitled…