Allegheny City v. People's Natural Gas & Pipeage Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 115, Oct. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1893, No. 62, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit to collect a municipal tax on pipes laid in a street.
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Appeal, No. 115, Oct. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1893, No. 62, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit to collect a municipal tax on pipes laid in a street. At the trial .it appeared that defendant was a natural gas company organized under the act of May 27, 1885, P. L. 29. On February 12, 1886, the city of Allegheny passed a general ordinance entitled: “ An ordinance regulating the manner and fixing the terms and conditions on corporations and individuals for the laying of pipes in the streets and highways of the city of Allegheny for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
Conceding that no authority has been shown in the city of Allegheny to impose a tax eo nomine on the pipes of appellant company laid in its streets, the question would still be open of the reasonableness of the ordinance in question as an exercise of the police power in the imposition of a license fee for supervision, and liabilities and inconveniences arising therefrom, on the principles of our recent decisions in regard to telegraph *635poles: Allentown v. Telegraph Co., 148 Pa. 117; Chester v. Tel. Co. 154 Pa. 464; Phila. v. Tel. Co. 167 Pa. 406.
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