School Directors of Bedford Borough v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Common Pleas of Bedford county. This was a proceeding founded on the petition of E. L. Anderson, praying for a mandamus against the School Directors of the Borough of Bedford, commanding them to exonerate and discharge him from the payment of the school-tax assessed upon moneys at interest secured by a mortgage on the real estate of the Bedford Mineral Spring Company.
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Appeal from the Common Pleas of Bedford county. This was a proceeding founded on the petition of E. L. Anderson, praying for a mandamus against the School Directors of the Borough of Bedford, commanding them to exonerate and discharge him from the payment of the school-tax assessed upon moneys at interest secured by a mortgage on the real estate of the Bedford Mineral Spring Company. The petitioner set forth that he is charged by the school directors of Bedford borough, with taxes for school purposes, to the amount of $430.02, assessed upon moneys at interest, secured by a mortgage on the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by
Woodward, J.
The school directors having assessed a school-tax for 1861 against the defendant in error, upon the last adjusted valuation furnished by the county commissioners, he applied for and obtained this writ of mandamus, commanding the directors to exonerate and discharge him from the payment of said tax. Thereupon a most irregular proceeding was had in the court below, which resulted, finally, in a judgment, erroneously called a decree, that the mandamus be granted. That judgment is now assigned for error.
This was an unprecedented application of…
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