Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. v. Commissioners

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Barnes,

The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company owns in fee or holds under lease approximately seventy tracts of anthracite coal land in Northumberland County. Some of these holdings are in the names of subsidiary companies. These tracts, covering a contiguous area of over twenty thousand acres, lie. in five townships and two. boroughs, and comprise over one-half the entire coal field of the county. They are located in Coal, Mount Carmel, Zerbe, Bast and West Cameron Townships, and in Shamokin and Mount Carmel Boroughs.

From the triennial assessment of 1931, as…