Evans v. Phillipi
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR. TO THE COURT OF COMMON FLEAS OF LANCASTER COUNTY. No. 303 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, Trust Book, No. 11, p. 193. This was a proceeding for a mandamus on the petition of John F. Evans against J. H. Phillipi, president, et alios, officers and members of the board of school directors of Warwick township.
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ERROR. TO THE COURT OF COMMON FLEAS OF LANCASTER COUNTY. No. 303 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, Trust Book, No. 11, p. 193. This was a proceeding for a mandamus on the petition of John F. Evans against J. H. Phillipi, president, et alios, officers and members of the board of school directors of Warwick township. The petition set forth in substance that the petitioner, on the third Tuesday of February, 1886, had been duly elected collector of taxes for the said township for one year beginning April 5,1886, under the act of June 25,1885, P. L. 187, had filed an approved bond and had…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark:
The plaintiff in error was, on the 16'th February, 1886, elected tax collector of the township of Warwick, in Lancaster county, under the provisions of the act of 25th June, 1885,' entitled “ an act regulating the collection of taxes in the sev*235eral boroughs and townships of this commonwealth; ” he gave bond which Avas approved, and now claims to perform the functions of that office. The defendants were the school directors of the same toAvnship for the same year, and although as such directors they levied a school tax for the year 1886, they refused to issue their…
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