Pardee v. Schuylkill County

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

Appellants, who are citizens, property owners and taxpayers of Schuylkill County, filed in the court below a bill in equity seeking to enjoin the county, and the county commissioners, sitting as a board to “revise, raise and equalize the valuation of all property” returned by the local tax assessors, “from in any wise proceeding upon [the commissioners’]......triennial assessment for 1922, and from doing anything in furtherance thereof.” Defendants demurred, the bill was dismissed and plaintiffs appealed.

The bill avers that the local assessors violated their…