Woodward & Williamson's Assessment

Opinion bt

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This is an anomalous proceeding. It arises out of the assessment of coal lands belonging to appellees located in the Borough of Edwardsville and City of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County. While the nominal appellant is the County of Luzerne, the real appellants are the Borough of Edwardsville and the school district thereof. The complaint is against a decree of the court below reducing the assessments of appellees’ coal lands, and the proceeding we are called upon to review, results from a petition to open that decree upon which the court granted a rule to show…