Bower v. Commissioners of Washington County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Washington county. This was an application, by the sureties upon the bond given to the commissioners of Washington county by G. Kinnan, who was collector of state and county taxes in Peters township for the year 1849, to be relieved from their said obligation, on the ground of misrepresentation and fraud in procuring the same.
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Error, to the Common Pleas of Washington county. This was an application, by the sureties upon the bond given to the commissioners of Washington county by G. Kinnan, who was collector of state and county taxes in Peters township for the year 1849, to be relieved from their said obligation, on the ground of misrepresentation and fraud in procuring the same. Kinnan had been appointed collector for Peters township for 1848, and was reappointed for 1849. On the 15th March, 1849, Bower and Philips, the petitioners, became his sureties for the year 1849, and judgment was entered upon the bond. On…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Lowrie, J. —
The sureties of a tax collector ask to be relieved from their bond, because they were induced to enter into it by seeing a newspaper publication of the accounts of the county, in which it was erroneously stated that the collector had settled up his previous year’s duplicate in full: an error, it seems, of the *71printer. We think that the learned judge of the Common Pleas was right in deciding that this is not a ground of relief. Such publications are intended for the general information of the public on the subject of the annual receipts and…
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