PLYMOUTH LANES, INC. v. PLYMOUTH TWP.


415 Pa. 206 (1964)

Plymouth Lanes, Inc., Appellant, v. Plymouth Township.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 31, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip D. Weiss, with him Desmond J. McTighe, and Duffy, McTighe & McElhone, for appellant.

Ernest E. Heim, Solicitor, for school district, with him A. Benjamin Scirica, Solicitor, for township, appellees.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, July 31, 1964:

During 1959 the Township of Plymouth and the School District of the Township of Plymouth (appellees), both in Montgomery County, enacted, respectively, an ordinance and a resolution in identical terms imposing a tax ". . . upon the sales of admissions [to] or on the privilege of attending or engaging in amusements. . . ." In each, "amusement" was defined as including a bowling alley. The tax rate and measure in each was...

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