(DOWNLOAD) "Pittsburgh Coal Company v. Forward Township School District" by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Pittsburgh Coal Company v. Forward Township School District
- Author : the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 02, 1951
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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These appeals grow out of separate actions of assumpsit instituted by the plaintiff against the several defendant school districts for the recovery of taxes allegedly paid erroneously and inadvertently: see Act of May 21, 1943, P.L. 349, 72 PS § 5566b. In each instance, the taxes were imposed by due resolution of the respective school district, acting under authority of the Act of June 25, 1947, No. 481, P.L. 1145 (53 PS § 2015.1-2015.8); and the plaintiff paid them knowingly. Following our decisions in Lawrence Township School District Tax Case, 362 Pa. 377, 67 A.2d 372, and Jamison Coal & Coke company v. Unity Township School District, 362 Pa. 389, 66 A.2d 759, where we held invalid substantially similar taxing resolutions, as to corporations paying a State tax, the plaintiff company thereupon ceased paying the taxes so imposed by the defendant districts and instituted the suits here involved to recover the sums already paid on account of such taxes. All of the material facts appear by the