Rockhill Iron & Coal Co. v. Fulton County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 16, May T., 1902, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Fulton Co., June T., 1901, No. 62, sustaining decision of county commissioners on tax assessments in case of Rockhill Iron & Coal Company v. Fulton County. Appeal from decision of county commissioners on tax assessment. Before McSwope, P. J, The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
The plaintiff is the owner of a large body of land lying in the three counties of Fulton, Huntingdon and Bedford. The land in Fulton county amounts to about 4,000 acres made up of separate tracts adjoining each other. Altogether, there were twenty-four separate tracts valued and assessed for taxation in Fulton county. As to eight of these, no complaint is made; as to the remaining sixteen, appellant alleges the valuation is grossly excessive and out of proportion to the valuation put upon other lands belonging to resident owners, of the same quality in the same…
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