Siggins v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Porest county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 168. Debt by the Commonwealth, at the relation of the Big Level Road Commissioners, upon the official bond of James P. Siggins, formerly county treasurer, and his sureties, to recover a certain amount alleged to have been collected by said treasurer as a tax on unseated lands. It appeared that by Act of Assembly of May 1st 1861, Pamph.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Porest county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 168. Debt by the Commonwealth, at the relation of the Big Level Road Commissioners, upon the official bond of James P. Siggins, formerly county treasurer, and his sureties, to recover a certain amount alleged to have been collected by said treasurer as a tax on unseated lands. It appeared that by Act of Assembly of May 1st 1861, Pamph. L. 611, a body of commissioners were created, called the Big Level Road Commissioners, with authority to lay out a road in the counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
It was no part of the purpose of the Act of'the 1st of May 1861, to enlarge the liabilities of the treasurers of the counties of McKean, Elk, Forest and Clarion, or to vary the mode prescribed by the Act of the 15th of April 1834, for the settlement of their accounts. The object in view when the Act of 1861 was passed, was the construction of a state road from a point to be fixed in Hamlin township, in the county of McKean, to Tylersburg, in the county of Clarion. The third section authorized the commissioners named in the first section to receive a portion of the road taxes equal to three…
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