Collingdale Borough v. Keystone State Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Citations

• 33 Pa. Super. 351
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 303

Syllabus

<p>Taxation — Telephone and telegraph companies — Incense tax — Affidavit of defense.</p> <p>In an action by a borough against a telegraph and telephone company to recover a license tax on poles and wires of #1.00 and #2.50 respectively per annum, an affidavit of defense is sufficient to prevent judgment which avers that the license tax was not based upon the cost of inspection, and that it was more than twenty times the amount that might have been, or could possibly be, incident to such inspection.</p>