Lehigh Portland Cement Co. v. Commonwealth

This writ of error was granted by one of the judges of the appellate court, on the petition of the plaintiff in error (hereinafter called plaintiff), to correct an alleged erroneous assessment of taxes upon its property by the Circuit Court of Augusta county, for the year 1925.

The proceeding was instituted by the commissioner of the revenue of Pastures magisterial district, under the authority of section 2238 of the Code of 1919, which provides, amongst other things, that the representative of the State Corporation Commission, generally known as the “Mineral Land Assessor,” shall, at the time…