Big Black Creek Improvement Co. v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county: Of May Term 1880, No. 189. This was an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county hy the Big Black Creek Improvement Company, from the-settlement of an account against them by the accounting officers of the Commonwealth.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county: Of May Term 1880, No. 189. This was an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county hy the Big Black Creek Improvement Company, from the-settlement of an account against them by the accounting officers of the Commonwealth. The appeal was filed July 7th 1879. The Big Black Creek Improvement Company was incorporated on the 12th of April 1855. The company was authorized to hold very considerable quantities of coal land in certain townships in Luzerne county, and to prepare the same to be worked and leased; the veins to be opened,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
Upon all corporations, having the right to mine, or to purchase and sell coal, the Act of 1874 imposed a tax of three cents for every ton mined or purchased, and required returns of the quantity of such coal to be made by the corporations to the auditor general; and also like tax on “ the number of tons of coal that shall be mined by any unincorporated association, partnership or individual, under any lease, contract, grant or mining privilege, upon the property of which the company making such report is the owner or lessee, or has any mining or coal privileges or interest therein.” No…
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