Johnstown Telephone Co. v. Southport Borough

Citations

• 47 Pa. Super. 468
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 182

Syllabus

<p>Telephone companies — License tax — Reasonableness—Boroughs.</p> <p>Where a telephone company is granted the privilege to erect and maintain poles and wires in a borough, and the ordinance granting the privilege provides that nothing contained therein should “limit the power of the borough to impose taxes nor prohibit the borough from adopting and enforcing any proper police regulations relating to streets,” and five years thereafter the borough passes an ordinance fixing the amount of the tax, the company cannot be deprived of its right under the Act of April 17,1905, P. L. 183, to have the reasonableness of'the tax determined by the fact that it paid the tax for two years without complaint.</p>