Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. v. Tamaqua Borough School District

Opinion by

Me. Justice Kephart,

The county commissioners, as a board of tax revision, made an assessment of plaintiff’s property in the Borough of Tamaqua at $3,596,188 for the triennial, beginning 1922. Plaintiff appealed, but meanwhile the commissioners certified the assessment to the school district of Tamaqua. On this valuation, it levied a tax of eight mills for the year 1922. Plaintiff successfully prosecuted its appeal from the assessment. Pending this appeal, which was not determined for more than two years, plaintiff, not wishing to pay the full levy of eight mills on the increased…