Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. v. School District

Citations

• 75 Pa. Super. 428
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 36

Syllabus

<p>School code — School, directors — Rotation in office — Compensation —Payment — Action of school hoard — Audit of accounts — Rwcharge.</p> <p>Where the directors of a school board elected two of their number respectively secretary and treasurer in regular rotation according to priority of expiration of term of service as director, and the succession was so arranged that each member of the board should hold a compensated office for two years during his term as director, and the treasurer at the end of each fiscal year paid to the secretary such amount of the treasurer’s salary as would make the secretary’s compensation the same as the treasurer’s, it will be held that such arrangement was to provide compensation for all of the directors, in violation of section 224 of the School Code of 1911, P. L. 332, and such practice will be enjoined.</p>