Geiser Manufacturing Co. v. Frankford Township

Citations

• 34 Pa. Super. 146
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 96

Syllabus

<p>Townships — Supervisors—Contract—Consultation and meeting of supervisors — Ratification.</p> <p>Where two supervisors of a township meet together with a person claiming damages from the township for the destruction of a traction engine which had broken through a defective township bridge, and the supervisors, in order to avoid litigation, agree to purchase another engine in place of the one destroyed, and they both subsequently sign an order for the new engine, but not at the same time or in the presence of each other, and thereafter they meet and prepare a minute as to the claim and appropriate money for payment of the claim, the order after it has been executed, and the engine delivered, will be deemed to have been based upon sufficient consultation and consideration on the part of the supervisors, and will constitute a valid contract of the township.</p>