Werner v. Hillman C. & C. Co.

Opinion by

Bardrige J.,

The appellant, as prothonotary of Somerset County, furnished five certified copies of certain records in his office to J. S. Brennan, secretary of an unincorporated organization, known as Somerset County Coal Operators’ Association, composed of a number of coal companies. The copies of the records so furnished were made by one operation on a typewriter and consisted of an original and four carbon manifolds. The appellant filed a bill in equity, claiming to recover, under the Pee Bill of April 2, 1868, P. L. 3, the sum of two cents for every ten words in each of the five…