Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. v. Schmidt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 359, Jan. T., 1915, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Northumberland Co., No. 395, in equity, dismissing bill in equity for injunction in case of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, The Mineral Railroad and Mining Company and the Lehigh Valley Coal Company v. P. Joseph Schmidt, Fred R. Dornsife and George E. Hancock, Commissioners of Northumberland County; Frank Bower, Joseph Jones, Nicholas Bohr, William Burget, Evan Jeremiah, John Breen, Henry…
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Appeal, No. 359, Jan. T., 1915, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Northumberland Co., No. 395, in equity, dismissing bill in equity for injunction in case of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, The Mineral Railroad and Mining Company and the Lehigh Valley Coal Company v. P. Joseph Schmidt, Fred R. Dornsife and George E. Hancock, Commissioners of Northumberland County; Frank Bower, Joseph Jones, Nicholas Bohr, William Burget, Evan Jeremiah, John Breen, Henry Boyd, William Nayman, Frank Gabriel, Joseph Chichoski, James Purcell, Oliver Fessler, Joseph Dunn, Commissioners of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
This is a bill in equity filed by the plaintiffs, as taxpayers, to restrain the defendants, the taxing authorities of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and of Coal Township in that county, from collecting from plaintiffs an unpaid balance of taxes for the year 1913, which plaintiffs contended were illegally levied. It is alleged in the bill, and the court below found as matters of fact, that the county commissioners, upon August 23, 1912, fixed a rate of levy for county taxes for the year 1913; that the rate of the levy for township taxes was fixed by the…
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