Pinebrook Foundation, Inc. v. Shiffer

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Cohen,

This is an appeal from the lower court’s dismissal of a petition to dissolve an injunction entered in 1956 restraining the collection of taxes.

In 1948, appellee, Pinebrook Foundation, Inc. (Pinebrook), requested appellants, the Commissioners of Monroe County (Commissioners), to exempt its real estate from taxation under “The Fourth to Eighth Class County Assessment Law,” Act of May 21, .1943, *381P. L. 571, §§101-706, 72 P.S. §§5453.101-5453.706. The Commissioners refused this request, and, in 1950, Pinebrook filed a complaint in equity praying that a permanent…