Commonwealth v. Vetterlein
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 81, Oct. T., 1902, by-defendant, from order of O. P. No. 1, Pbila. Co., June T., 1901, No. 861, making absolute rule for judgment, for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense, in case of Commonwealth v. Joseph S. Yetterlein, trading as Yetterlein. Appeal from assessment of the board of mercantile appraisers. Rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 81, Oct. T., 1902, by-defendant, from order of O. P. No. 1, Pbila. Co., June T., 1901, No. 861, making absolute rule for judgment, for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense, in case of Commonwealth v. Joseph S. Yetterlein, trading as Yetterlein. Appeal from assessment of the board of mercantile appraisers. Rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court made absolute a rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Error assigned was the order of the court making absolute a rule for…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
William W. Porter, J.,
The judgment in this ease was entered for want of sufficient affidavit of defense. The proceeding was by an appeal to the common pleas from the assessment of the board of mercantile appraisers in the city of Philadelphia. The license tax was assessed against the defendants as dealers and vendors of goods, wares and merchandise. The affidavit set up that the defendants were manufacturers and not dealers. The judgment, was entered not because of the infirmity of this defense but because the record showed that the appeal was taken to the common pleas more than ten…
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