Case ID: watts-serg_5/html/0505-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Pjer Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lancaster County against Roberts.
    Criminals sentenced to confinement at labour in the Eastern Penitentiary, must be removed there at the expense of the county where they are Convicted.
    ERROR to the District Court of Lancaster county.
    This was an action by Anthony E. Roberts, late sheriff of Lancaster county, against the County of Lancaster, to recover $326.50, the expenses of removing several convicts, who had been sentenced while he was in office, to solitary confinement at labour in the Eastern Penitentiary for a period of one year or longer. The question was, whether the county was liable for this expense.
    Hays, President, decided that the plaintiff was entitled to recover, and directed a judgment accordingly.
    
      Long, for plaintiff in error.
    Ellmaker, contra,
   Pjer Curiam.

The opinion of the District Court is correct; the Act of 1831 is express, that the expenses of removals shall be paid by the county.

Judgment affirmed.