Commonwealth ex rel. Forest County v. Knox
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Forest County. Debt by the Commonwealth, ex rel. Forest County, against Daniel S. Knox, executor of Herman Blum, deceased, Sebastian Blum, Henry Kiser, and Joseph G. Dale, the defendants being the surviving obligors upon the official bond of Frederick Glassner, late treasurer of said county. Upon the trial in the Court below, before Junks, P. J., the following facts appeared.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Forest County. Debt by the Commonwealth, ex rel. Forest County, against Daniel S. Knox, executor of Herman Blum, deceased, Sebastian Blum, Henry Kiser, and Joseph G. Dale, the defendants being the surviving obligors upon the official bond of Frederick Glassner, late treasurer of said county. Upon the trial in the Court below, before Junks, P. J., the following facts appeared. On the 27th of May, 1874, William Hazlett, collector of the poor tax of Green Township, paid to Glassner $202.97, poor fund, to be applied on the Dixmont account against Green…
1Per curiam
The charge of the learned judge in the Court below, that the auditors’ settlement after the time that the treasurer received the money, unappealed from, concludes the rights of both parties, is fully sustained by the authorities. The ease of Northumberland County v. Bloom, 3 W. & S., 542, in which it was held that the settlement of the account of a county treasurer by the auditors, after the time limited for an appeal, is as conclusive upon the county as it is upon the officer, is in point, to which many other cases may be added. Blackmore v. Allegheny, 1 P. F. Smith, 160, and cases there…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Northumberland County v. BloomSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1842