City of Wilkes-Barre v. Chase

Citations

• 7 Pa. Super. 343
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 294

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Public officers — Municipal control as to selection of office by receiver of taxes.</p> <p>The city of Wilkes-Barre is under no legal obligation to furnish the receiver of taxes with an office, and the selection of a location for his office must be approved by councils, but when councils instead of confining thernselves to their legitimate sphere of action, measured by such approval, undertake to make an original selection giving the receiver no primary choice, and directing him to occupy quarters in the city hall, the occupancy of such quarters by the receiver, in obedience to such directions, does not establish either an express or implied contract on the part of the receiver to pay rent, nor does it show the relation of landlord and tenant.</p>