Court Opinion

ID: 9696217
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:41:20.417724+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:19.699297
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bell:
I dissent. A taxpayer in my judgment has a standing to bring this bill in equity. If a taxpayer or a person whose property interest or the value thereof is af*403fected by an action of an Authority, has no legal standing to challenge the acts or the validity or the constitutionality of an ordinance or of an act of the legislature, or the validity and constitutionality of the acts of an Authority, the Courts have allowed to be created a corporation above and beyond the Law — i.e., above and beyond the legislative statutes and/or couneilmanie ordinances and above and beyond the provisions of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and the Constitution of the United States. Such absolute, unlimited, omnipotent, unassailable power, placing a legislatively or councilmanically created Authority above the Constitution and above all law, is to me unthinkable.
Mr. Justice O’Beibn joins in this dissenting opinion.