Horning's Case
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 8, March T., 1904, by A. G. Scholl et al. from order of C. P. Juniata Co., April T., 1908, No. 21, dismissing exceptions to report of county auditors, in the matter of H. Cloyd Horning et al., county commissioners. Appeal from report of county auditors. Before Auten, J., specially presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Errors assigned were in refusing exceptions to report of county auditor.
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Appeal, No. 8, March T., 1904, by A. G. Scholl et al. from order of C. P. Juniata Co., April T., 1908, No. 21, dismissing exceptions to report of county auditors, in the matter of H. Cloyd Horning et al., county commissioners. Appeal from report of county auditors. Before Auten, J., specially presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Errors assigned were in refusing exceptions to report of county auditor. The intervening taxpayers have and are entitled to all the rights of the county in this litigation. The county could have filed specifications of error,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion bt
Rice, P. J.,
In the audit - of their accounts for the year 1902 the county commissioners claimed credit, inter alia, for payments amounting to $1,650 made by them, through orders drawn on the county treasurer, to physicians and attorneys for services rendered in certain litigation between John Carl and the county. The auditors reported that they disallowed $200 of the sum paid to the physicians and $325 of the sum paid to the attorneys, making $525 in all. They, did not in so many words report this sum as a charge against the county commissioners, but their *284findings have been treated…
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