PHILADELPHIA v. BROOMALL


183 Pa.Super. 296 (1957)

Philadelphia v. Broomall, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

April 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin S. Henry, Jr., with him C. Walter Randall, Jr., and Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, for appellant.

Levy Anderson, First Deputy City Solicitor, with him Lawrence Prattis, Assistant City Solicitor, and David Berger, City Solicitor, for appellee.

Before HIRT, GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ. (RHODES, P.J., absent).


OPINION BY WOODSIDE, J., April 11, 1957:

Philadelphia has an ordinance which imposes "a tax of ten per centum of gross receipts from all transactions in or for the parking of automobiles or motor vehicles on open parking lots in the City of Philadelphia." This ordinance, imposed under the authority of the Act of August 5, 1932, P.L. 45, 53 PS § 4613, is constitutional. Philadelphia v. Samuels, 338 Pa. 321, 12 A.2d 79 (1940).

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