Appeal from Report of Auditors of Dunmore School District—Winters
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 40, Jan. T., 1918, by Ralph Winters, from judgment of tbe C. P. of Lackawanna Co., October T., 1916, No. 187, dismissing a taxpayer’s appeal from report of auditors of school district of Borough of Dunmore. Motion to quash appeal for want of proper bond. Before Newcomb, J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court quashed the appeal.
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Appeal, No. 40, Jan. T., 1918, by Ralph Winters, from judgment of tbe C. P. of Lackawanna Co., October T., 1916, No. 187, dismissing a taxpayer’s appeal from report of auditors of school district of Borough of Dunmore. Motion to quash appeal for want of proper bond. Before Newcomb, J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court quashed the appeal. Errors assigned were orders of the court denying a motion to amend and making absolute the rule to dismiss the appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fox,
The auditors of the school district of the Borough of Dunmore, Lackawanna County, filed their report in the Court of Common Pleas of that county on the fifth day of December, 1916. On the fourth day of January, 1917, Ralph Winters, a taxpayer of the school district (thepresent appellant) filed an appeal from this report to the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County. On the same day that he took the appeal Mr. Winters filed in the. court an obligation which was called a bond, but which was in form a recognizance. It was given by Ralph Winters, the appellant, and…
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