Com. v. Rankin (No. 3)

Opinion by

Baldrige, P. J.,

This case is similar in many of its aspects to Commonwealth v. Rankin et al., 158 Pa. Superior Ct. 12, in which an opinion has been filed this day. Section 348 of the General County Law, approved May 2, 1929, P. L. 1278, Art. IV, 16 PS §348, under which the indictments before us were drawn, provides that all contracts made by the county commissioners involving an expenditure of $100 shall be in writing and “no contract shall be made, nor the payment thereof certified, by the controller for over three hundred dollars, unless made with the lowest and best bidder, after…