Summit Hill School Directors
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 78, Jan. T., 1917, by Henry Stout, Daniel A. Jones and James A. Cunningham, from decree of C. P. Carbon Co., Oct. T., 1916, No. 5, removing them from office as School Directors of the Borough of Summit Hill, in re Petition of Resident Taxpayers and Citizens to Declare the Seats of the Board of Directors of the School District of the Borough of Summit Hill Vacant and to Appoint Others to Their Places. Petition to declare seats of school directors vacant.
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Appeal, No. 78, Jan. T., 1917, by Henry Stout, Daniel A. Jones and James A. Cunningham, from decree of C. P. Carbon Co., Oct. T., 1916, No. 5, removing them from office as School Directors of the Borough of Summit Hill, in re Petition of Resident Taxpayers and Citizens to Declare the Seats of the Board of Directors of the School District of the Borough of Summit Hill Vacant and to Appoint Others to Their Places. Petition to declare seats of school directors vacant. Before Barber, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court removed the directors. The school directors…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Frazer,
This appeal by defendants is from a decree of the Common Pleas removing them, from the office of school directors of the Borough of Summit Hill, for having procured certain work to be done on a school building without calling for competitive bids, in violation of section 617 of the School Code of May 18,1911, P. L. 309, which provides that “every contract in excess of three hundred dollars ($300), made by any school district in this Commonwealth, for the introduction of heating, ventilating, or lighting systems, or the construction, reconstruction, or repair of…
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