Indiana County v. Agricultural Society
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana county: Of October and November Term 1877, No. 210. Debt by the Indiana County Agricultural Society against the County of Indiana. The 4th section of the Act of March 29th 1851, Pamph.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana county: Of October and November Term 1877, No. 210. Debt by the Indiana County Agricultural Society against the County of Indiana. The 4th section of the Act of March 29th 1851, Pamph. L. 290, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society,” provides, “ that when any number of individuals shall organize themselves into an agricultural or horticultural society, or any agricultural or horticultural society, now organized within any of the counties of this Commonwealth, shall have adopted a constitution and by-laws for their…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered November 5th 1877,
2Per curiam
— The right of the agricultural society to recover rests on the fourth section of the Act of 29th March 1851, Pamph. L. 290. The plaintiff in error claims the act is made void by section 7, article 9, of the constitution of 1874. That section declares, “ the General Assembly shall not authorize any county, city, borough, township or incorporated district to become a stockholder in any company, association or corporation, or to obtain or appropriate money for, or to loan its credit to any corporation, association, institution or…
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