Appeal of Fox
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, of Northampton County: In equity: Of January Term, 1886. No. 323. This was an appeal by Edward J. Fox and Elizabeth F. R. Fox, his wife, from a decree of said, court dismissing their bill in equity filed by them against Edward Lercb, Reuben Fehnel and Tilghman Wolfe, County Commissioners of Northampton County, and Hiram Edelman, assessor of the sixth ward in the Borough of Easton, said county. ■ The bill recites that the complainants…
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, of Northampton County: In equity: Of January Term, 1886. No. 323. This was an appeal by Edward J. Fox and Elizabeth F. R. Fox, his wife, from a decree of said, court dismissing their bill in equity filed by them against Edward Lercb, Reuben Fehnel and Tilghman Wolfe, County Commissioners of Northampton County, and Hiram Edelman, assessor of the sixth ward in the Borough of Easton, said county. ■ The bill recites that the complainants are residents of Easton, and that Hiram Edelman is the assessor of the sixth ward, in which the plaintiffs reside. That he…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This bill was filed by the complainants in the court below against Edward Lerch, Reuben Fehnel, and Tilghman Wolfe, Commissioners of Northampton county, and Hiram Edelman, *348assessor of the sixth ward in the borough of Easton, to restrain defendants from requiring plaintiffs to make a return of their personal property for taxation under Act of June 30th, 1885.
The bill avers that the complainants are residents of Easton, and that Hiram Edelman is the assessor of the sixth ward, in which the plaintiffs reside. That he served a notice upon them requiring them to make a return of their personal…
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