Brennan v. Kauffman

Citations

• 42 Pa. Super. 196
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 315

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — Poor directors — Power to remove..</p> <p>Where poor directors are given power to employ, “and at pleasure remove,” stewards, matrons and other attendants, they may remove without assigning any reason therefor a workman; and it is immaterial that the removal may have been brought about by two out of the three members of the board corruptly conspiring together to make removals and to divide appointments between them and each to vote for any person that the other might name for the position vacated without knowing who would be named. In such a case the person removed could not recover from the county for wages after his removal, although the person appointed in his place might recover for wages earned, if he was in no way connected with the illegal conspiracy.</p>