Strock v. County of Cumberland
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 175, July T., 1895, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Cumberland Co., dismissing petition for mandamus. Motion for peremptory mandamus because of insufficient return to writ of alternative mandamus.
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Appeal, No. 175, July T., 1895, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Cumberland Co., dismissing petition for mandamus. Motion for peremptory mandamus because of insufficient return to writ of alternative mandamus. Before Biddle, P. J. From the record it appeared that on April 16, 1895, a writ of alternative mandamus was issued to the commissioners of Cumberland Co., to compel payment to plaintiff of the sum of $2,705.04, being the amount computed to be due for boarding vagrants upon the basis of 9 cents per day by virtue of a retrospective order made by the quarter sessions on December 27, 1894,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
At the time when the plaintiff was elected to his office of sheriff of Cumberland county, and also at the time wheu he entered upon the duties of the office, the compensation for boarding prisoners was fixed by law; that is, the court of quar*61ter sessions of tbe county of Cumberland, had, in the lawful exercise of their authority, by an order made November 23, 1891, fixed the price of boarding vagrants committed to the custody of the sheriff at 4 cents per day. On the 1st of January following the plaintiff assumed his office and continued therein until the 1st of…
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