Climax Road Machine Co. v. Allegheny Township

Citations

• 10 Pa. Super. 437
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 298

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — Township road commissioners — Contractual power — Deliberative action — Absence of minutes of meeting.</p> <p>Eoad commissioners have discretionary power to contract for the purchase of road machines and while such action must be a deliberative act had at a meeting properly convened of which all the officers had notice, it cannot be held that the lack of minutes of such meeting is fatal to the validity of a contract authorized thereat.</p> <p>Evidence — Discretionary power of road commissioners — Offer to disprove.</p> <p>Tn a suit on a note given for a road machine purchased by the commissioners an offer to prove that the machine was not necessary to the township was properly rejected; the commissioner’s have discretionary power to purchase such machinery as they deem necessary.</p>