Hargreaves v. Mid-Valley School District

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Mid-Valley School District (school district) has appealed from a decision of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas ordering that it pay to appellee Robert Hargreaves, an elected tax collector within its district, commissions on certain returns for delinquent taxes which were subsequently collected by the Lackawanna County Tax Claims Bureau (the Bureau).

Before January of 1973, local tax collectors within Lackawanna County, including appellee Hargreaves, made returns of delinquent taxes to the County Commissioners under the Act of May 29, 1931, P.L. 280, as amended,…