Commonwealth v. Walton

Citations

• 182 Pa. 373
• 38 A. 790
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 821

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Constitutional law — Article IX., section 7 of the constitution — Police pension fund — Corporation,</p> <p>A reasonable appropriation by the councils of a-city to a corporation organized, to create a fund to pension its members who are policemen is an appropriation to a strictly municipal use, and does not violate sec. 7, article IX. of the constitution which provides that “ the general assembly shall not authorize any county, city, borough, township or unincorporated district to become a stockholder in any company, association or corporation, or to obtain or appropriate money for, or to loan its credit to, any corporation, association, institution or individual.”</p> <p>Municipal corporations — Delegation of powers.</p> <p>Where city councils are satisfied that a fund appropriated to the members of a corporation will be better distributed through the agency of the corporation than by an agency of their own creation they have a right to so provide.</p>