Cogan v. Bedford County

Citations

• 49 Pa. Super. 262
• 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 318

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — County auditors — Reports—Filing reports in court— Act of April 15,1884, P. L. 587.</p> <p>1. The filing of county auditors’ reports in the office of the prothonotary among the records of the court of common pleas is a sufficient compliance with the Act of April 15, 1834, P. L. 537. The reports need not be brought into open court and filed by direction of the court.</p> <p>2. On an appeal from a judgment of the court of common pleas against a public officer who has appealed from the report of county auditors, the appellate court will not reverse the judgment, because the trial court admitted in evidence and ruled on reports of previous years alleged to be conclusive against the appellant, where the latter has failed to print such reports in his paper-book.</p> <p>3. Where county auditors have audited the accounts of a public officer, and their report has been filed and not appealed from, their successors four years afterwards have no jurisdiction, in the absence of fraud, to pass upon claims that should have been made four years before.</p>