Custer v. Glessner

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 60
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 72

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — Recorder of deeds — Records—Indices—Act of May 26,1891, P. L. 129 — Jurisdiction of Common Pleas.</p> <p>Under tbe Act of May 26, 1891, P. L. 129, which empowers the Court of Common Pleas to change and alter the mode of “keeping of the indices” in the office of recorder of deeds and other public offices, the court may make an order directing such change and prescribing the manner in which the indices are thereafter to be kept, but it has no jurisdiction to direct the county commissioners to enter into a contract for the necessary books and to direct them to employ some one to transcribe the records into the new books. This is a matter for the recorder of deeds or other officer whose records are affected.</p>