Gearhart v. Dixon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of trespass, brought by Charles Gearhart, the plaintiff in error, who was plaintiff below, against George A. Dixon, Peter Haughawout, Joseph Patton, William D. Gearhart, Joseph Reader, and Robert Scott, to recover damages for taking and selling a plough, the property of the plaintiff.
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In Error. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of trespass, brought by Charles Gearhart, the plaintiff in error, who was plaintiff below, against George A. Dixon, Peter Haughawout, Joseph Patton, William D. Gearhart, Joseph Reader, and Robert Scott, to recover damages for taking and selling a plough, the property of the plaintiff. The plough had been levied upon and sold by George A. Dixon, one of the defendants, who had been duly appointed collector of school tax for Rush township, Northumberland county, by the board of school directors of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Burnside, J.
The plaintiff in error has no cause to complain of the way he was treated in the court below. Rush township had adopted the school system. The law required the school directors, not only of Rush township, but the directors of every school district which adopted the common school system, before the first Monday in May, annually, to levy a tax for school purposes, not less than equal to, or more than treble the amount which the district is entitled to receive out of the annual state appropriation. Sect. 4, act of 1836. Here is a positive…
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