Opinion by
Allоy Metal Wire Company appealed from the Board of Revision of Taxes to the court of common pleas for a reduction of the assеssment of its property in Prospect Park Borough. The Board and the company then filed a stipulation by which a reduction in value was agreed *431 upon, аnd the court below entered an order, establishing the assessment at the reduсed figure. The Borough, not a party to the proceedings at any time, brings this aрpeal.
The Borough has no standing to appeal. To allow it would, in effеct, permit the Borough to institute suit in this Court, a result not contemplated by the Act оf May 22, 1933, P. L. 853. Section 520 of the Act did not make the various political subdivisions enumerated therein parties to the proceedings before the Board or the court below, when they do not appear. That section confers on the Borоugh, if aggrieved by an assessment, the right to appeal to the Board, the court of common pleas, or to the Supreme or Superior Court. But before appealing to this Court, the municipality must become a party to the сase in the court below or before the Board. Section 520 provides thаt an appeal by a municipality shall be “subject to the same procedure, and with like effect, as if such appeal were taken by a taxаble. ...” And Section 519 specifically states that such appeals are to be taken “in the same manner as appeals are taken in other cases to the said Supreme or Superior Court.”
Appellant’s position is nо better, as regards a review in this court, under our general appeal stаtute, the Act of May 22, 1722, 1 Sm. L. 131, Section 9. * That Act states “. . . any person . . . aggrieved with the judgment” may appeal, but it restriсts the right of review in this Court to “the party ... so aggrieved.” The act provides thereforе that all “persons aggrieved” to have the right to appeal should be “parties aggrieved
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There is but one way to be made “a party” or litigant in a court, and that is to become one by appearing in the proceedings. Participation in sоme form in the court below is a requisite to appellant’s right to review. See
Steel v. Bridenbach,
7 W. & S. 150, where the court quashed appellant’s writ of error, on the ground that he was in the position of a stranger, not a party to the suit, and hence could not appeal; that “if dissatisfied ... he should . . . have been put on the record, in sоme shape, as one of the parties to the suit.” We stated flatly in
Mechanics Nat. Bank of Trenton v. Buckman,
Since the Borough was not a party of record to proceedings in the court below it has no standing to appeal. The Act of 1933, by providing in Section 402 that the assessment figures apply to taxation for Borоugh purposes, and in then granting to the Borough a right to appeal from this assеssment, recognized that the assessors and the Board do not “represent” the Borough in such a sense that the Borough can be considered, through them, a рarty to the proceedings. The Act does not grant to one not a pаrty below the right to appeal.
Appeal quashed.
Notes
“If any person or persons shall find him or themsеlves aggrieved- with the judgment of any of the said Courts of General Quarter Sessions оf the Peace and Gaol Delivery, or any other Courts of Record within this prоvince, it shall and may he lawful to and for the party or parties, so aggrievеd, to have his or their writ or writs of error; which shall he granted them, of course, in manner as other writs of error are to he granted, and made returnable to the said Supreme Court of this province.”