Commonwealth v. Light
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 165, Oct. T., 1907, by defendants, from order of C. P. Lebanon Co., June T., 1907, awarding mandamus in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Edwin L. Kreider v. John B. Light, William Gassert and Samuel Royer, County Commissioners. . Petition for mandamus. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 165, Oct. T., 1907, by defendants, from order of C. P. Lebanon Co., June T., 1907, awarding mandamus in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Edwin L. Kreider v. John B. Light, William Gassert and Samuel Royer, County Commissioners. . Petition for mandamus. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order awarding the mandamus. —The provisions of sec; 20, charging the payment of the registrar’s services on the county funds is unconstitutional and void, there being nothing in the title of the act indicating or calling attention to the liability thus created: Quinn…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlad y, J.,
Edwin L. Kreider was appointed a local registrar of Lebanon county by the state board of health and vital statistics, under the provisions of the Act approved May 1,1905, P. L. 330, and after duly qualified performed the duties incident .to that office for the year 1906, and made returns with certificates to the state registrar, who upon approval thereof issued a certificate directed to the treasurer of Lebanon county, certifying that Kreider had made his return to the office of state treasurer during the year 1906, of 242 certificates of death and 373 certificates of…
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