Lancaster County v. Hershey

Citations

• 205 Pa. 343
• 54 A. 1038
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 574

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — County officers — Principal and surely — Settlement by county auditors — Action—Premature action.</p> <p>Where a county treasurer has kept accounts, and handed his books of account over to his successor, but has failed to pay to his successor a balance shown by his books to be due to the county, a common-law action may be maintained by the county against the sureties on the treasurer’s bond, although the county auditors may have not as yet settled0 and adjusted the treasurer’s account.</p> <p>Mestrezat and Potter, JJ., dissent,</p>