Breslow v. Baldwin Township School District

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,. Was the amendatory Act of 1961 defining “assessed value” as market value, in determining an increase of debt of a school district, constitutional?

Plaintiffs, who are residents and taxpayers of the School District of Baldwin Township, Allegheny County, filed a complaint in this Court seeking to enjoin the defendant School District, a corporation, from issuing and selling a proposed $2,500,000 issue of general obligation bonds of the Baldwin Township School District.

This Court assumed original jurisdiction in this case under the provisions of Article V, §3, of…