Glendale Heights Ownership Ass'n v. Glenolden Borough School District

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

This is an appeal from the action of the court below in awarding to a taxpayer, the Glendale Heights Ownership Association, the sum of $11,678.51 which it had paid, under protest, to the School District of Glenolden as a tax on the transfer of certain real estate.

On January 11, 1955, the Federal Government, acting through the Public Housing Administration, notified the tenants of the Glendale Homes Federal Housing Project that the project was to be sold to private interests and advised them, in accordance with federal law, that a first option would be…