Commonwealth v. Sharetts

Citations

• 231 Pa. 525
• 80 A. 1100
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 880

Syllabus

<p>Election law — Public officers — Poor directors — Constitutional law.</p> <p>1. Where directors of the poor hold their office by virtue of a special act of assembly erecting them into a corporate body, they are not county officers; but, they are public municipal officers; and although their selection is not provided for specifically in the constitution, nevertheless they are quite as much municipal officers in essential characteristics as though specifically there enumerated.</p> <p>2. Under the constitutional amendments of 1909 poor directors are to be voted for on “a municipal election day.” Poor directors elected on a general election day in the even year are without title to office.</p>