Quigley v. Reiff
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 247, Oct. T., 1907, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. Chester Co., No. 474, In Equity, dismissing bill in equity in case of George Quigley v. J. B. Reiff, Tax Collector of East Vincent Township. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Butler, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was decree dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The plaintiff was the owner of a farm, containing sixty-four acres of land, intersected by the boundary line between East Vincent and East Pikeland townships, seven acres of the land being in the former township and fifty-seven in the latter. Up to the year 1906 there was but one dwelling house on the premises, and as it and the farm buildings were in East Vincent township, the whole tract was assessed and the taxes thereon were paid in that township. But prior to the time when school taxes for the year 1906 were levied on the entire tract by the authorities of East…
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