In re the Guardianship of A.A.M.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a commissioner charged with issuing binding decisions regarding state compensation for claimants to certain lands did not hold an office because the position was special or temporary
• finding that whether an office is incompatible is a “question [that] must be decided by the Constitution of Pennsylvania and the acts passed under it, and not by cases under the common law of England”
• a “commissioner of the Commonwealth” did not hold an “office of profit under th[e] Commonwealth” because he did not hold an “office”
• the position held by a state commissioner was not an office “of profit” “because he did not receive a cent as commissioner”
• commissioner regarding land claims, paid by the day

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).