Foster Township Road Tax
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 42, Oct. T., 1906, by E. B. Sage et al., from order of Q. S. McKean County, Dec. T., 1905, No. 24, dismissing petition for an election under act of April 12, 1905, In the Matter of the Petition of the Citizens of Foster Township. Petition for an election under Act of April 12,1905, P. L. 142. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
On December 11, 1905, a petition, signed by more than twenty-five taxpayers of the township of Foster in the county of McKean, was presented to the court of quarter sessions of that county, praying the court to order an election, at the coming February municipal election, to determine whether the road taxes of that township should be thereafter paid wholly in cash. The authority to make such an order is alleged to have been conferred on the several courts of quarter sessions by the proviso to sec. 2 of the Act of April 12, 1905, P. L. 142.
A rule to show cause was granted,…
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