White Deer Township v. Napp

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

This appeal concerns whether the common pleas court correctly terminated a municipality’s challenge to the receipt by Second Class Township supervisors and their spouses of post-retirement medical insurance benefits that the supervisors themselves authorized.

Charles Napp, Leonard Caris, and Carl Hartranft (deceased) are former supervisors and employees of White Deer Township, a municipality organized under the provisions of the Second Class Township Code. 1 , 2 In December 1997, at a time when they had worked for the Township for more than twenty years, Messrs. Napp,…