Freiler v. Schuylkill County

Citations

• 46 Pa. Super. 58
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 227

Syllabus

<p>Justice of the peace — Fees—Act of April 28,1909, P. L. 160 — Constitutional law.</p> <p>1. The Act of April 23,1909, P. L. 160, entitled “An Act to regulate and establish the fees to be charged by a justice of the peace, aldermen and magistrates in this commonwealth,” does not apply to justices of the peace who were commissioned prior to the date of the act.</p> <p>2. A justice of the peace, while a constitutional, a judicial and a public officer, is not within the class of judges “learned in the law,” enumerated in sec. 18 of art. V of the constitution, but is within the protection of sec. 13 of art. Ill which provides that “no law shall extend the term of any public officer, or increg.se or diminish his salary, or emoluments after his election or appointment.”</p>