Richie v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 329, Jan. T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of Superior Court, Oct. T., 1907, No. 235, affirming judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., June T., 1907, No. 3,823, for defendant on case stated in suit of James E. Richie v. Philadelphia. Appeal from Superior Court. The facts appear from the report of Richie v. Philadelphia, 37 Pa. Superior Ct. 190, and the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 329, Jan. T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of Superior Court, Oct. T., 1907, No. 235, affirming judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., June T., 1907, No. 3,823, for defendant on case stated in suit of James E. Richie v. Philadelphia. Appeal from Superior Court. The facts appear from the report of Richie v. Philadelphia, 37 Pa. Superior Ct. 190, and the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was the judgment of the Superior Court affirming the judgment of the lower court on case stated.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
By the Act of May 31, 1907, P. L. 329, the salaries of real *513estate assessors in counties having a population of 1,000,000 or over were fixed at $3,000 per annum. At the time of the approval of this act the appellant was one of the real estate assessors of the county of Philadelphia, to which the act applied, having been appointed on December 31, 1903, to serve for a period of five years from the date of his appointment. His salary, as fixed by the act of April 12, 1873, was $2,000 per annum, and the court of common pleas, sustained by the Superior Court (Richie v.…
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