Byers v. Hempfield Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 2, Oct. T., 1910, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Westmoreland Co., No. 652, In Equity, dismissing bill in equity in case of A. R. Byers et al., for themselves and other citizens and taxpayers of Hempfield Township, v. Hempfield Township and W. F. Holtzer et al., Supervisors, and Joseph Barclay, Treasurer of said Township. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Doty, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 2, Oct. T., 1910, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Westmoreland Co., No. 652, In Equity, dismissing bill in equity in case of A. R. Byers et al., for themselves and other citizens and taxpayers of Hempfield Township, v. Hempfield Township and W. F. Holtzer et al., Supervisors, and Joseph Barclay, Treasurer of said Township. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Doty, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
This bill was filed by the plaintiffs, citizens and taxpayers of Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, against the township and its supervisors and treasurer to restrain them from collecting a special cash road tax of five mills, or such part thereof as should be determined to be illegal and without authority of law. The bill averred, inter alia, that the supervisors had levied a work road tax for 1908 of three mills, and a cash road tax of five mills for the following purposes: “two mills for debt, one and one-half mills for construction of state roads;…
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