Schuylkill County v. Minogue

Citations

• 160 Pa. 164
• 28 A. 643
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 787

Syllabus

<p>County auditors — Report of — Judgment against attorney of county commissioners — Want of jurisdiction.</p> <p>County auditors have no authority to audit the accounts of an attorney employed by the county commissioners to conduct the litigated business of the county.</p> <p>A judgment entered against such an attorney upon the report of the county auditors is void in its inception, and is not rendered valid by the fact that defendant appealed from the judgrhent of the county auditors to the common pleas on the day that the court discharged a rule to strike it off.</p>