Beaver County v. Bradshaw

Citations

• 57 Pa. Super. 144
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 165

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — County solicitor — Compensation—Statutory attorney fee of $8.00 — Acts of May 22,1895, P. L. 101, and March 5,1903, P.. L. 11.</p> <p>A county solicitor, who before entering upon the duties of his office enters into an agreement with the county commissioners in compliance with the Act of May 22, 1895, P. L. 101, as amended by the Act of March 5, 1903, P. L. 11, “to pay all fees, attorney’s fees and commissions, received from every source as county solicitor into the county treasury,” cannot retain as his own property the statutory attorney fee of $3.00 taxed in county cases. Pittsburg v. O’Brien, 239 Pa. 60, distinguished.</p>