Com. ex rel. Harkins v. Hinkson

Citations

• 161 Pa. 266
• 28 A. 1081
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 683

Syllabus

<p>Mandamus — Public officers — Salaries.</p> <p>Where a judgment has been obtained by a policeman against a city for services, the city cannot object, in mandamus proceedings to collect the judgment, that plaintiff’s contract of employment with the city was invalid.</p> <p>Where the city has sufficient funds in its treasury applicable to the payment of such a debt, it cannot object that when the appropriation was made the existing force of policemen was seventeen men, that plaintiff and four others were employed subsequently, and that if plaintiff’s claim wei’e paid, the fund would be insufficient to pay the original seventeen men during the whole year for which the appropriation was made.</p>