Bleiler v. Muldoon

Citations

• 16 Pa. Super. 553
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 107

Syllabus

<p>Coroners — Compensation—Public officers — Act of March 31,1876, P. L. 13.</p> <p>As the coroner is not mentioned as one of the officers who are entitled to be paid “ the full amount allowed to them,” by section 16 of the Act of March 31, 1876, P. L. 13, without regard to the amount of fees collected or earned by them, it necessarily follows that he belongs to the class mentioned in the concluding clause of the section which provides that “all other officers shall be paid the amounts herein assigned them, only when the net receipts of their respective offices shall reach the amount herein respectively fixed for them.”</p> <p>In ascertaining “ net receipts ” within the meaning of the act of March 31, 1876, the amount of fees earned by the coroner and chargeable upon the county shall be added to the fees actually paid into the county treasury, and from this aggregate amount shall be deducted the amounts due his clerks and deputies. If there is no balance, the coroner is not entitled to a mandamus to compel the county controller to approve his claim for any amount. ■</p>