City of Lancaster v. County of Lancaster

COLINS, Judge.

Appellants 1 are a group of Lancaster County municipalities and individual taxpayers who are appealing a September 12, 1990 opinion and order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County (Common Pleas), which denied Appellants’ Motion for Post-Trial Relief. We reverse.

On October 9,1987, Appellants filed a Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Complaint, seeking declaratory, equitable and mandamus relief. Appellants alleged therein that Lancaster County’s current method of determining real property assessments violates the uniformity of taxation requirement found in Article…