Custer v. Glessner
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 176, April T., 1917, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. Somerset Co., Equity Docket, 1917, No. 3, refusing to grant an injunction in case of John E. Custer v. William J. Glessner et al. County Commissioners. Bill in equity for an injunction to restrain the defendants from entering into a contract for the reindexing of open and unsatisfied mortgages into new mortgage indexes and from purchasing books for the same.
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Appeal, No. 176, April T., 1917, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. Somerset Co., Equity Docket, 1917, No. 3, refusing to grant an injunction in case of John E. Custer v. William J. Glessner et al. County Commissioners. Bill in equity for an injunction to restrain the defendants from entering into a contract for the reindexing of open and unsatisfied mortgages into new mortgage indexes and from purchasing books for the same. From the record it appeared that on the recommendation of a committee of the bar association of Somerest County, the court made the following order: And now, to wit:…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
We are of opinion the learned court below fell into error in entering the order and decree complained of.
The recorder of deeds in each of the several counties of the Commonwealth is and has been, almost since our beginning, an important county officer. He is elected by the people of the county. His duties and emoluments are prescribed by statute. He is, in no accurate use of' language, an officer of the court nor are the records which, by law, he is required to safely keep, the records of the judgments or decrees of the court. They are the history of the transactions of the…
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