Lenhart v. Cambria County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 68, Oct. T., 1906, by defendant, from judgment of Superior Ct., April T., 1905, No. 179, reversing judgment of C. P. Cambria Co., June T., 1904, No. 410, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Samuel Len-hart v. Cambria County. Appeal from the Superior Court. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court and by the report in 29 Pa. Superior Ct. 350. JError assigned was the judgment of the Superior Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
Plaintiff’s claim in this case was for removing certain prisoners, in pursuance of sentences and orders of the court, from the jail of Cambria county to the Western Penitentiary, the Dixmont Insane Asylum, the Polk Institute and the Hunting-don Reformatory, respectively. For these services he claimed fees under the Act of July 11,1901, P. L. 663, as follows: six cents per mile for each mile actually traveled by each prisoner ; ten cents per mile circular for each mile actually traveled or necessary to be traveled by plaintiff himself in case each sentence were…
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