Kimber v. Schuylkill County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a certiorari issued to the Common Pleas of SchuyUdll county, at the instance of Thomas Kimber and others. The object of the certiorari was to have a review of the proceedings or judgment of the Court of Common Pleas in the matter of an appeal to that Court by Kimber and others, from the decision of the County Commissioners raising the valuation of certain lands, and otherwise acting in relation to the assessment of taxes.
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This was a certiorari issued to the Common Pleas of SchuyUdll county, at the instance of Thomas Kimber and others. The object of the certiorari was to have a review of the proceedings or judgment of the Court of Common Pleas in the matter of an appeal to that Court by Kimber and others, from the decision of the County Commissioners raising the valuation of certain lands, and otherwise acting in relation to the assessment of taxes. Kimber and others were the owners of the undivided half part of a tract of land, called the “Wolf Creek tract,” in Cass township, Schuylkill county. Some years…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
This, though called an appeal, is a certiorari to the Common Pleas of Schuylkill, by which certain proceedings relative to the county rates and levies have been removed into this Court.
An act of Assembly, passed in April, 1850, authorizes any freeholder dissatisfied with the decision of the commissioners in adjusting the taxes, to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas, and that Court is commanded to hear the case, and affirm the assessment or reduce it as to them may seem proper. ' Such an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas was taken in the…
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