Philadelphia v. Dougherty

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

This is another phase of the subject-matter which came before our Supreme Court in Dougherty, Trustee, v. Phila., 314 Pa. 298, 171 A. 583, and Dougherty’s Appeal, 321 Pa. 170, 183 A. 920. In the first of those cases it was held that a bill in equity filed to restrain the taxing authorities of the City of Philadelphia from assessing and collecting taxes for the years 1927 to 1932 on the three-story building known as St. Agnes’s School, 804-816 North Orianna Street, was properly dismissed, because part of the building was used for commercial purposes. The opinion of the…