Cooper & Grove v. Lampeter Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. Mark Cooper and Benjamin Grove against the Township of_ Lampeter. This was an action on the case in assumpsit for work, labour and services, and materials found in the erection of the wing-walls of a bridge.
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ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. Mark Cooper and Benjamin Grove against the Township of_ Lampeter. This was an action on the case in assumpsit for work, labour and services, and materials found in the erection of the wing-walls of a bridge. The case was this; The county of Lancaster, in pursuance of the provisions of the act of assembly, had entered into a contract with the present plaintiffs for the erection of a bridge across a stream, which was too expensive for the adjoining townships to bear. After the bridge had been erected, Abraham Buck-waiter, one of the supervisors…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
The several counties and townships of this state have capacities, as bodies corporate, to sue and be sued by their corporate name, to take and hold real and personal estate within their respective limits, and to make such contracts, as may be necessary and proper, for the execution of the objects and purposes of the township or county. ■ The corporate powers are to be exercised by the commissioners and supervisors thereof, respectively, who are constituted, by the act of the 15th of April 1834, their agents and organs for the transaction of…
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