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COM. ex rel. TRSCOTT v. PHILADELPHIA

380 Pa. 367 (1955)

Commonwealth ex rel. Truscott v. Philadelphia.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 12, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall H. Morgan, Special Counsel, with him Robert L. Rubendall, Deputy Attorney General, and Frank F. Truscott, Attorney General, for plaintiffs.

Abraham L. Freedman, City Solicitor, with him Harvey Levin, Deputy to City Solicitor, Abraham Wernick, Deputy City Solicitor and Jerome J. Shestack, First Deputy City Solicitor, for defendants.

William A. Gray, with him Gray, Anderson & Schaffer, for intervening plaintiffs.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BELL, January 12, 1955:

The question presented is a narrow but very important one: Is the ordinance of Philadelphia's City Council which abolishes the Board of Revision of Taxes invalid because it violates the Constitution?

Philadelphia City Council passed on August 16, 1954 an ordinance which abolished the Board of Revision of Taxes and established new City offices to which it transferred all the functions and duties theretofore performed...

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