Commonwealth v. Girard Trust Co.

Hargest, P. J.,

This case arises on an appeal from the settlement by the Auditor General, approved by the State Treasurer, of a tax on the shares of the defendant company for the year ending June 20, 1921. A stipulation was filed dispensing with a trial by jury, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of April 22, 1874, P. L. 109. Although the case was heard April 11, 1922, briefs on both sides were not submitted to the court until Jan. 17,1923.

Since the case was heard the defendant abandoned several of the positions raised in its specifications of appeal, and it now raises only the question of…