Eyster v. Rineman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Franklin. June 15. Adam Rineman, the plaintiff below, brought suit before a justice, against the Commissioners of Franklin, to recover the price of printing certain election proclamations in a German newspaper, published by him in the county, called the “ Coon Fanger,” or Coon Killer.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Franklin. June 15. Adam Rineman, the plaintiff below, brought suit before a justice, against the Commissioners of Franklin, to recover the price of printing certain election proclamations in a German newspaper, published by him in the county, called the “ Coon Fanger,” or Coon Killer. From the judgment of the justice there was an appeal, upon the trial of which it appeared that the sheriff of the county had employed Rineman to do this printing; that the paper was what is called a campaign paper, having been published but for three months preceding the presidential…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of this court was delivered by
Burnside, J.
It is alleged that the plaintiff cannot maintain this action. The fee bill of 1821, under the title “ Sheriff,” has this item: — “Advertising general election, in addition to the printer’s bill, to be paid by the county, 75 cents.” The labour and services were done by the printer. The county is to pay for it by the express direction of the act: Dunlop, 298. No good reason can be given for the printer’s bill passing through the hands of the sheriff. But it is alleged this enactment in the fee bill of 1821 is superseded by the act of the…
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- Caldwell v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1829
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