Mullen v. Commissioners of Erie County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of October and November Term 1877, No. 251. This proceeding was an appeal by Rt.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of October and November Term 1877, No. 251. This proceeding was an appeal by Rt. Rev. T. Mullen, for St. Peter’s Cathedral, from the decision of the Commissioners of Erie county, in which the facts were submitted for the opinion of this court in the following case stated:— “ It is agreed that a cathedral is now being constructed by the Catholics of the Diocese of Erie, on their city lots in Erie, on the corner of Sassafras and Tenth streets, to bo known as St. Peter’s Cathedral; that said building is not yet completed, and that work on same…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
If anything bo plain in the constitution, and the law passed to carry out the second clause of the first section of the eighth article relating to exemptions of churches from taxation, it is that a place of actual religious worship only can be exempted. A marked feature of this clause, which controls its interpretation, is, that no such words were used as churches, meeting-houses, or others, to designate the buildings themselves; but to prevent all doubt, the convention used the words “ actual places of religious worship.” In so doing, that body confined the scope of legislative power to the…
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