Kelly v. Pittsburgh
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. •
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The plaintiff -in error, James Kelly, is the owner of eighty acres of land, which, prior to the year 1867, was a part of the township of Collins, in the county of Alleghany and State of Pennsylvania. In that year the legislature passed an act by virtue of which, and the subsequent proceedings under it, this township became a part of the city of Pittsburgh. The authorities of .the city assessed the land for the taxes of the year 1871 at a sum which he asserts is enormously beyond its value, and almost destructive of his interest in the property. They are divisible into two classes; namely,…
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