Crawford v. Southern Fulton School District

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

Stanley Crawford (appellant), a farmer by occupation, lives within the boundaries of Southern Fulton School District (District) in Fulton County. The District, a fourth-class school district, levied for 1965-1966 an occupation tax on appellant and all other farmers within the boundaries of the school district. The District claims to derive its authority for the tax from the so-called “Tax Anything Act” (Act of June 25, 1947, P. L. 1145, §1, as amended, 53 P.S. §6851: “A. The duly constituted authorities of . . . school districts of the fourth class may, in their…