County of Cumberland v. Mohler
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 33, March T., 1898, by poor directors of Cumberland county, from judgment of Q. P. Cumberland Co., in favor of plaintiff on case stated. Case stated. Before E. W. Biddle, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Defendants were surcharged by the county auditors with the sum of $80.57, being the expenses incurred by their attorney, treasurer and steward in attending their annual convention in October at Pittsburg.
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Appeal, No. 33, March T., 1898, by poor directors of Cumberland county, from judgment of Q. P. Cumberland Co., in favor of plaintiff on case stated. Case stated. Before E. W. Biddle, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Defendants were surcharged by the county auditors with the sum of $80.57, being the expenses incurred by their attorney, treasurer and steward in attending their annual convention in October at Pittsburg. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the amount of surcharge. Defendants appealed. Error assigned was entering judgment in favor of plaintiff on…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The effort to apply the public funds in defraying the hotel expenses and railroad fares of the attorney, treasurer, secretary and steward'of the board of directors of the poor, while attending an annual convention of the directors of the poor of the state, was met by surcharging the directors of the poor of Cumberland county in the account submitted by them to the county auditors. A case stated was then agreed to and the conclusion reached by the county auditors was approved by the court in entering a judgment in favor of the county against the directors of the poor. It…
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