Commonwealth v. Chester County Light & Power Co.

Opinion by Me.

Chief Justice Schaffer,

The problem here presented seems to us simple and not difficult of solution when met in a direct and common sense way, — when sentences used in a statute are allowed to speak the meaning which is obvious in them and when we do not seek for a legislative intent so obscured as to be inconclusive in reaching anything like certainty.

The court below held appellee, Chester County Light & Power Company, not liable to an additional tax of one mill on its corporate indebtedness for the year, 1935, which the Commonwealth contends was imposed by Section 19 of the Act…