Hamilton's Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

This is a taxpayer’s appeal from a decree determining that outstanding indebtedness of the City of Philadelphia, in the sum of $59,156,500, invested in the City’s sewer system and facilities for the treatment and disposal of sewage, and the further sum or sums, not to exceed $42,000,000, now proposed to be borrowed and invested in said system and facilities and for the improvement and extension thereof, is self-liquidating utility debt within the meaning of Article IX, Section 8, of the State Constitution, and, pursuant to the provisions of the enabling Act of…