# Allegheny Light Co. v. Pittsburgh

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · April 17, 1905 · 211 Pa. 489

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6247987

## Case

- **Full name:** Allegheny Light Company v. Pittsburgh
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** April 17, 1905
- **Citations:** 211 Pa. 489; 1905 Pa. LEXIS 487
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Brown
- **Judges:** Brown, Dean, Elkin, Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potter
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The tax which the city of Pittsburg would collect from this *490 appellee is an unauthorized property tax, and, for tlie reason given in the opinion in Pittsburgh Railways Company v. City of Pittsburgh et al., No. 12, October Term, 1905, this day filed, the decree is affirmed and the appeal dismissed at appellants’ costs.

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