Snyder v. Berkey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 122, Oct. T., 1917, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Somerset Co., Sept. T., 1913, No.. 70, for defendants, in case of J. J. Snyder, J. C. Miller and J. C. Deitz, Directors of the Poor and of the House of Employment of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, v. J. A. Berkey, H. L. Sipe and H. F. Barron. Assumpsit on an official bond. Before Ruppel, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states tlie facts. The case was tried by the court without a jury.
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Appeal, No. 122, Oct. T., 1917, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Somerset Co., Sept. T., 1913, No.. 70, for defendants, in case of J. J. Snyder, J. C. Miller and J. C. Deitz, Directors of the Poor and of the House of Employment of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, v. J. A. Berkey, H. L. Sipe and H. F. Barron. Assumpsit on an official bond. Before Ruppel, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states tlie facts. The case was tried by the court without a jury. The court entered judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appealed. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to various findings of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This is an action of assumpsit on the official bond of H. F. Barron, treasurer of the directors of the poor and of the House of Employment of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, for 1912, on which Berkey and Sipe, the other two defendants, were sureties. In September, 1912, the treasurer, in his official capacity, received $1,100 and in January, 1913, $2,262, both of which sums he failed to charge himself with in his book as treasurer and which he appropriated to his own use. At the trial before the court below, under the Act of 1874, it appeared that the books, vouchers and other…
2Cited by1 opinion
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