Commonwealth ex rel. Whitehonse v. Harris

Citations

• 248 Pa. 570
• 94 A. 251

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — Borough officers — Chief burgess — Borough contracts — Employment of burgess by public contractor — Act of May 28, 1907, P. L. 262 — Quo warranto — Ouster.</p> <p>It is a violation of the Act of May 28th, 1907, P. L. 262, relating to borough officers, employees and contractors, for a borough official to be an employee of any person who contracts with the borough. A judgment of ouster was therefore properly entered in a quo warranto proceeding against a chief burgess where it appeared from the pleadings that during his term of office he was employed by the owner of a newspaper, who had furnished supplies and material to the borough for which the latter' had paid.</p>