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COM. v. FIRST NAT'L. BK. OF SCRANTON

378 Pa. 272 (1954)

Commonwealth v. First National Bank of Scranton, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Welles, 3rd, with him Welles & Mackie, for appellant.

George W. Keitel, Deputy Attorney General, with him Frank F. Truscott, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellee.

George F. Shinehouse, Jr., with him Albert Barnes Zink, for First National Bank of Sunbury, et al., amicus curiae.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BELL, June 28, 1954:

This is an appeal from a judgment upholding a tax settlement made by the Board of Finance and Revenue fixing for purposes of taxation the value of the shares of stock of The First National Bank of Scranton. The Act imposes a tax on shares of capital stock of corporations doing a banking business: Act of July 15, 1897, P.L. 292, § 1, as amended, 72 PS § 1932; upon the actual value of such shares.

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