Legal Opinion
Werkman v. Westmoreland County
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 21, 1937No. Appeal, 97PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, P. J.,
Westmoreland County is a county of the third class. By the Act of March 17, 1921, P. L. 32, the salary of court criers of the several courts in counties of the third class was fixed at sixteen hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid out of the county treasury.
John P. Werkman was duly appointed court crier of the Orphans’ Court of Westmoreland County.
During the recent depression many counties were compelled, because of financial stringency, to curtail expenditures, and, in some counties, certain regular sessions of court were omitted or postponed as a necessary measure of…
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