Philadelphia Appeal

In this case the Board of Revision of Taxes of the City and County of Philadelphia assessed the premises Nos. 1301-25 Chestnut Street, Ninth Ward, Philadelphia (John Wanamaker Philadelphia main department store) for purposes of taxation for the year 1947 at $19,705,300. Believing the assessment to be excessive the owner, John Wanamaker Philadelphia, took an appeal to this court and Judge Byron A. Milner of this court after a hearing de novo, at which both the appellee and appellant, presented their evidence, filed an adjudication in which he found that the actual and market value of said…