Commonwealth ex rel. Hillegass v. Huffman
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 41, March T., 1898, by plaintiff, from order of G. P. Bedford Go., Sept. T., 1897, No. 31, for overruling demurrer to the return, etc., in an application for mandamus. Mandamus to the commissioners of Bedford county requiring them to deliver to plaintiff for purpose of collection duplicates of state and county taxes for the township of Juniata.
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Appeal, No. 41, March T., 1898, by plaintiff, from order of G. P. Bedford Go., Sept. T., 1897, No. 31, for overruling demurrer to the return, etc., in an application for mandamus. Mandamus to the commissioners of Bedford county requiring them to deliver to plaintiff for purpose of collection duplicates of state and county taxes for the township of Juniata. Before Lohgenecker, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court below, as follows: L. A. Hillegass was elected tax collector for Juniata township at the February election 1897, and on the 19th of April presented his…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beaver, J.,
Under the provisions of an act of assembly approved April 13, 1868, P. L. 1017, entitled “ An act to provide for the collection of state, county, poor and military taxes in the county of Bedford,” the treasurer of the said county has, since the passage of the act, collected the taxes therein named. An act of assembly approved the 25th day of June, A. D. 1885, P. L. 187, entitled “ An act regulating the collection of taxes in the several boroughs and townships of this commonwealth,” provides for the election of an officer, to be styled collector of taxes, by the qualified…
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