Webb v. Township of Wakefield

The above entitled cases arise out of alleged delinquencies of the same officers in the same township, involve the same controlling questions of law, as we view it, and will be considered together. In each case the declaration counted upon an alleged contract, upon township orders for the amount claimed under it, and also upon the common counts in assümpsit. In each case defendant pleaded the general issue with various special notices based chiefly on failure of the township officers to observe statutory provisions governing their action and limiting their authority in such matters, with a…