Frailey Township School District v. Schuylkill Mining Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The plaintiff school district sued in assumpsit to recover from the defendant company unpaid school taxes on certain real estate for each of six consecutive fiscal years on the ground of the defendant’s alleged personal liability for such taxes.

The statement of claim embraced six separate causes of action, one for each respective year’s unpaid taxes, the several causes being separately set out under appropriate headings. The defendant answered to the merits and under new matter, averred, with respect to the first two causes of action, that (1) the taxes in- eluded…