Likovich Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Parker,

The auditors of the borough of Rankin surcharged the appellants, John Likovich, president of council, and Joseph Korch, borough secretary, for the year 1941 with the sum of $7,700.85. * On appeal to a court of common pleas the surcharges were sustained and the officers have taken separate appeals to this court. The judgments entered must be sustained.

The court below in its opinion sustaining the surcharges stated that there was an “absence of deliberate fraud”. Much of appellants’ argument is an appeal for relief on the ground that the alleged illegal payments…