Mansel v. Nicely
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 276, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Lycoming Co., June T., 1895, No. 564, on verdict for defendant. Appeal from report of county auditors. Before Mayer, P. J.r of the 25th judicial district, specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court, and from the following charge of the court below.
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Appeal, No. 276, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Lycoming Co., June T., 1895, No. 564, on verdict for defendant. Appeal from report of county auditors. Before Mayer, P. J.r of the 25th judicial district, specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court, and from the following charge of the court below. In the fall of 1893, J. F. Nicely was elected by the votes of Lycoming .county a county commissioner, and on the first Monday of January, 1894, he entered upon the duties of his office and continued in the discharge of those duties during the year…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
Two questions of importance are raised by the assignments of error in this case. One relates to the right of the appellee, a county commissioner of Lycoming county, to the allowance of $8.50 per day for each of the three hundred and six days on which he was in attendance at his office, and the other to the allowance of the daily expenses of travel from his home to his office.
The pay of county commissioners is fixed by the act of May 7, 1889, P. L. 109, and is “for each and every day actually and necessarily employed in the discharge of the duties of their office.”…
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