Case Name: Commonwealth to use, Appellant, v. Scranton
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1906-04-09
Citations: 214 Pa. 595
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 24
Parties: Commonwealth to use, Appellant, v. Scranton.
Judges: Before Mitchell, C. J., Mestrezat, Potter, Elkin and Stewart, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 214
Pages: 595–595

Head Matter:
Commonwealth to use, Appellant, v. Scranton.
Public officers — Bonds—Commissions on liquor license fees — County treasurer — Actions.
No suit can be brought by a city in the name of the commonwealth to the city’s use, on a bond given by a county treasurer for the protection of the commonwealth, where the object of the suit is to recover from the county treasurer commissions on liquor license fees, which are the property of the city.
Argued Feb. 21, 1906.
Appeal, No. 24, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from judgment off C. P. Lackawanna Co., Jan. T., 1905, No. 17, on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Commonwealth to use of City- of Scranton v. Joseph A. Scranton and Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland.
Before Mitchell, C. J., Mestrezat, Potter, Elkin and Stewart, JJ.
Affirmed.
Assumpsit on a bond. Before Edwards, P. J. •
The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
The case was tried by the court without a jury.
Error assigned wag in entering judgment for defendant.
I. H. Burns, with him David J. Davis, city solicitor, and H. R. Van Deusen, assistant city solicitor, for appellant.
Samuel B. Price, for appellee.
April 9, 1906:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
Joseph A. Scranton, one of the defendants in this case, served as treasurer of the county of Lackawanna for the years 1901, 1902 and 1903. This action is brought to recover from him certain moneys retained as commissions for the collectio'n of liquor license moneys during his term of office. The action is brought not on the bond given to the county, but on the general bond to the commonwealth. For the reasons given in the case of Commonwealth v. Schadt et al., ante, p. 592, there can be no recovery in this case.
Judgment affirmed.