City of Chester v. McGeoghegan

Citations

• 6 Pa. Super. 358
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 162

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction, J. P. — Reduction of municipal claim by remission of the penalty.</p> <p>A municipality having cause of action to recover a municipal assessment and penalty thereon, may throw off the penalty and thus bring the. claim within the jurisdiction of an alderman.</p> <p>Municipal law — Power to compromise claims.</p> <p>Municipal officers may compromise claims or remit them in whole or in part when delay and expense may be saved by so doing; they are responsible at the proper time and place for so doing, but a debtor being sued as such is not in position to call them to an account.</p>