Jersey Shore State Bank v. Brewer

SMITH, Judge.

Jersey Shore State Bank (Bank) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County (trial court) that dismissed the Bank’s mandamus action in reliance on an earlier order that dismissed the Bank’s exceptions to a sheriffs schedule of distribution. The issue as presented by the Bank is whether the common pleas court erred in dismissing the Bank’s mandamus claim and exceptions to the sheriffs bill of costs where the sheriff calculated his sales commission in the amount of 136 percent of the amount bid for the real estate at sale rather than the 2 percent as…