Commonwealth ex rel. Borough of Mechanicsburg v. Knettle

Citations

• 182 Pa. 176
• 38 A. 13
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 788

Syllabus

<p>Principal and surety — Discharge of surety — Tax collector's bond.</p> <p>If a borough tax collector applies the money received on the duplicate of one year in satisfaction of a balance due from him on the duplicate of the preceding year, without the knowledge of the borough that the money had been collected on the duplicate of the second year, he makes a clear misappropriation of the money collected, and his sureties on the bond given in the second year are not released from liability for the money so applied.</p>