Peoples Natural Gas Co. v. Pittsburgh

Opinion by

Me. Justice Linn,

These seven appeals are from separate decrees restraining the collection of a tax on meters imposed by city ordinance. The cases were heard on hill and answer. No facts are disputed. In each hill the power to tax was challenged for various reasons, some common to all plaintiffs and others peculiar to the business of the complaining party. The learned court below was of opinion that the legislature expressly withheld from the city the power to tax the property in question. As we all agree that the particular property sought to be taxed is already taxed by the State,…