Voigt's Fees

Searle, P. J.,

The coroner obtained a rule to show cause why costs of viewing a dead body, $2.75, and mileage, twenty miles each way, $4, total $6.75, should not be paid.

The answer to the rule set forth: 1. That there was no cause for viewing this body. 2. That the place of death was more than ten miles from the residence of the coroner, and view could be made by a justice. 3. That there is no statute in Pennsylvania fixing rate of mileage, and, in the absence of such statute, no mileage can be allowed.

Where a coroner, upon request, has made a view and no inquest, as provided by section 1 of…