Peeling v. York County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 94, Jan. T., 1905, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. York Co., Aug. T., 1904, No. 112, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Edward C. Peeling v. The County of York. Appeal from report of county auditors.
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Appeal, No. 94, Jan. T., 1905, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. York Co., Aug. T., 1904, No. 112, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Edward C. Peeling v. The County of York. Appeal from report of county auditors. Before Stewart, J. From the record it appeared that the county auditors disallowed a claim of the sheriff amounting to $2,027.98 for fees, mileage and expenses in transporting prisoners to the House of Refuge, Lunatic Asylum, Harrisburg, Pa., Huntingdon Reformatory and the Eastern Penitentiary. At the trial plaintiff presented this point: 1. That under the fee bill of July 11,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mjr. Justice Elkin,
This appeal involves two questions arising under the Act of July 11, 1901, P. L. 663, which regulates and establishes the fees to be charged by sheriffs in the several counties of the commonwealth. The first point to be considered is whether a sheriff in the transportation of prisoners to the penitentiary or other penal institutions, should charge ten cents a mile direct or circular. The act provides that “ the sheriff shall be entitled to receive and have taxed as costs ten cents a mile, for "each mile actually traveled and necessary ” in the performance of *248his…
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