Potter County v. Page

Citations

• 53 Pa. Super. 268
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 165

Syllabus

<p>Public officers — County treasurer — Interest on deposits — Liability to account.</p> <p>1. Where a county treasurer deposits public moneys in banks in his own name as treasurer, and the banks .at stated intervals credit these accounts with interest, the treasurer has no authority to draw the interest from the official accounts and deposit it in his own personal accounts in the same banks.</p> <p>2. Public moneys when received by the proper official do not immediately, and thereupon become wholly and absolutely his private property to be used and disposed of by him solely according to his own pleasure, saving only the ordinary liability of a debtor to have them forthcoming to meet the obligation of his bond.</p>