Firemen's Relief Ass'n v. Scranton

Citations

• 217 Pa. 585
• 66 A. 1103
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 764

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Appropriations of money — Firemen’s relief association — Constitutional laxo — Repeal of ordixiance — Mandamus.</p> <p>The Act of June 28, 1895, P. L. 408, which appropriates to municipalities within the commonwealth one-half of the net amount received from the tax paid upon premiums by foreign insurance companies, does not appropriate the fund to any particular purpose. It may be used in the discretion of the local authorities for any lawful purpose.</p> <p>An ordinance of a city appropriating money received from the state under the above act of assembly, to a firemen’s relief association, does not create in the association any vested right in the fund prior to its actual payment. It constitutes at most merely an executory gift, subject to revocation, until the transfer of the money has actually been made.</p>