Benton v. Freedom Township Supervisors

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The action below was assumpsit by the holder of a warrant issued in the sum of $110 by the supervisors of the defendant township. A verdict was returned in favor of the plaintiff for the amount of the warrant with interest from the date of suit; the township’s motions for judgment in its favor n. o. v. and for a new trial were overruled and judgment entered upon the verdict; this appeal is by the township from that judgment.

Uncontroverted facts appearing from the record may be thus summarized: In 1923 Fred Benton, the legal plaintiff, hired certain trucks to the…