Riehl v. Miller

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

Appellant, a taxpayer, filed a class bill, praying, inter alia, that defendants, alleged “for the past ten years [to] have been duly elected directors of the poor,” be surcharged with unlawful expenditure of money in the purchase of three tracts of land for the Allegheny County Home. Answers denying liability were filed. The chan cellor entered a decree nisi ordering payment to the Allegheny County Home. Exceptions were sustained by the court in banc, which was of opinion that “there is no evidence to establish fraud as a fact on the part of the defendants. ...”…