Windber Telephone Co. v. Scalp Level Borough

Citations

• 47 Pa. Super. 470
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 183

Syllabus

<p>Telephone companies — License tax — Reasonableness—Boroughs.</p> <p>Where a telephone company is granted the use of streets by a borough under an agreement that the company is to be “governed by all legal ordinances of a general nature now in force or that may hereafter be enacted,” such agreement will not deprive the company of its right under the Act of April 17, 1905, P. L. 183, to have determined the reasonableness of a subsequent ordinance imposing a license tax of sixty cents per each pole maintained by the company in the borough.</p>