First Baptist Ch. of Pbgh. v. Pbgh.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Parker,

These appeals arise out of a claim by the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh that a plot of ground assessed to it for school and city taxes is exempt from taxation. The chnrch appealed from a final assessment by the board of assessors to a court of common pleas and at the same time filed a bill in equity alleging that the property as a whole was exempt from taxation and praying that the municipal authorities be restrained from levying taxes against it for the years 1936, 1937, and 1938. Practically the same facts being involved in the two cases, they were…