Manheim v. Board of County Commissioners

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Dbew,

This is a proceeding in equity by citizens and taxpayers of Venango County to restrain performance of and to invalidate a contract whereby the county commissioners had retained special counsel to prosecute the collection of personal property taxes owed by the Estate of George W. Crawford. The learned chancellor, Honorable Henby C. Niles, President Judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District, specially presiding, found the contract, under the circumstances which were explored at length in an extended trial, entirely beyond the power of the commissioners, and declared…