Commonwealth v. Maxwell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 21, April T., 1907, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Butler Co., Dec. T., 1905, No. 31, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Commonwealth to usq of the Butler County Poor District v. James M. Maxwell et al. Scire facias on a judgment entered on a tax collector’s bond. Before Galbreath, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. íftror assigned among others was in refusing binding instructions for defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
James M. Maxwell, one of the appellants, was the duly elected tax collector for the borough of Butler for the year 1902. As such collector he, with the remaining appellants as his sureties, entered into an official bond to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the sum of 180,000, conditioned that he would “ well and truly collect and pay over or account for according to law the whole amount of taxes charged and assessed in the duplicates which shall be delivered to him,” etc. This bond contained a warrant of attorney in the usual form authorizing the entry of judgment…
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