Black v. Pittsburg

Citations

• 230 Pa. 312
• 79 A. 569
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 607

Syllabus

<p>Municipal corporations — Judgments and suits — Bight of taxpayer to defend — Statutes—Repeal by implication — Acts of March S3,1877, P. L. SO, and March 7, 1901, P. L. SO — Pittsburg.</p> <p>1. The Act of March 23, 1877, P. L. 20, which provides that in case of any unsatisfied judgment or suit “against any township, borough, school or poor district, or other municipal district” any taxpayer may inquire into the validity of the judgment and defend the district, is not applicable to cities, so as to warrant the intervention of a taxpayer of the city of Pittsburg to inquire into the validity of an unsatisfied judgment on award of viewers and to defend the city in the suit.</p> <p>2. The Act of March 7, 1901, P. L. 20, covering cities of the second class, providing for a complete department of law and putting the legal matters of the corporation in the hands of the city attorney, must be deemed as repealing the act of 1877, if that act ever applied to cities of the second class.</p>