City of Allentown v. Hower
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Lehigh county: Of January Term 1880, No. 67. Scire facias sur municipal claim by the City of Allentown against Harrison Hower for water-frontage tax.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Lehigh county: Of January Term 1880, No. 67. Scire facias sur municipal claim by the City of Allentown against Harrison Hower for water-frontage tax. The City of Allentown was incorporated under a special act of Assembly, approved March 12th 1867. On September 8th 1874, the city surrendered its charter, and accepted the provisions of the act entitled “An Act dividing the cities of this State into three classes,” he., approved May 23d 1874. In the year 1875, the Avater commissioners of the city passed a resolution providing for the extension of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The claim against the defendant was for “ water-frontage tax ” regularly assessed for water-pipe laid in front of his property on the south side of Walnut street. The tax, not having been paid within the time required, was registered in the city lien docket; but the defendant contends that the registration was so fatally defective that the court was right in striking off the claim.
The municipal corporation act, providing, among other things, for extending the supply of water, requires the clerk of the department to make a list of all the owners of houses, lots and buildings on each-side of…
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