Krider v. City of Philadelphia

Citations

• 180 Pa. 78
• 36 A. 405
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 876

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Assessment for taxes — Assessors' duties — Or edibility of witness — Gharge of court.</p> <p>On the trial of an appeal from a road jury in proceedings to open a street, where a tax assessor has testified on behalf of a land owner he may •be asked on cross-examination, for the purpose of testing his credibility, at what amount he had assessed the land for tax purposes; and if he testifies that the tax assessment was much less than the valuation which he placed upon the land, it is not reversible error for the court to comment upon the difference as bearing upon the credibility of the witness.</p>