Case Name: East Side Land Company's Appeal
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1934-06-30
Citations: 315 Pa. 458
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 111
Parties: East Side Land Company’s Appeal.
Judges: Before Frazer, C. J., Simpson, Schaffer, Maxey, Drew and Linn, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 315
Pages: 458–459

Head Matter:
East Side Land Company’s Appeal.
June 30, 1934:
Argued April 16, 1934.
Before Frazer, C. J., Simpson, Schaffer, Maxey, Drew and Linn, JJ.
Francis H. Bohlen, Jr., with him Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, for appellant.
David J. Smyth, City Solicitor, Mayne R. Longstreth, Assistant City Solicitor and I. G. Gordon Forster, Assistant City Solicitor, for appellee, were not heard.

Opinion:
Per Curiam,
The apartment hotel property known as the Roosevelt Hotel located at the corner of Twenty-third and Walnut Streets in the City of Philadelphia was assessed for taxes for the year 1933 in the amount of $496,000. Upon appeal to the Board of Revision of Taxes the assessment was reduced to $475,000. A further appeal was taken to the Court of Common Pleas No. 2 of Philadelphia County, in which, after a hearing, the court determined the fair market value of the property to be $455,000. The present appeal is from dismissal of exceptions to that adjudication.
We have carefully examined the record and find no reason for disturbing the conclusion of the court below. In an appeal from the assessment of taxes, the findings of fact of the lower court, when based on the weight of the evidence, as appears to be the fact here, have great force, and will not be reversed unless clear error is made to appear. Westbury Apartments, Inc. Appeal, 314 Pa. 130; 222 S. Nineteenth Street Corporation Appeal, 314 Pa. 132.
Decree affirmed at appellant's cost.