Kilgore v. Magee
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of. October and November Term 1877, Nos. 253 and 254. These were appeals by Samuel Kilgore and the Central Board of Education of the city of Pittsburgh from decrees of the court sustaining demurrers to bills in equity, filed by the respective complainants.
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Appeals from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of. October and November Term 1877, Nos. 253 and 254. These were appeals by Samuel Kilgore and the Central Board of Education of the city of Pittsburgh from decrees of the court sustaining demurrers to bills in equity, filed by the respective complainants. The bill of Kilgore, a citizen and tax-payer, and the treasurer elect of the city of Pittsburgh, was filed on the 4th of May 1877, against C. L. Magee, treasurer, R. M. Snodgrass, controller, and the members of the finance committee of councils of said city, setting forth…
1Opinion of the Court
*411The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered, November 19th 1877.
2Per curiam
— The merits of the Act of 22d of March 1877, “in relation to cities of the second class, providing for the levy, collection and disbursement of taxes and water-rents,” are not a subject for our opinion. The only question before us in these cases is, upon the power of the legislature to pass this law. After a thorough argument and a careful consideration, we' are unable to pronounce the law unconstitutional. The power to classify cities according to the number of their population was fully discussed and decided in the case of…
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