2 Pa. 17 | Pa. | 1845
— The sixth section of the act of the 16th April, 1840, Pamphlet Laws, 411, provides, “That no person shall be excluded from being a witness or juror in any suit, prosecution, or proceeding, in which any county, city, incorporated district, borough, or township, is a party, or is interested, by reason of such person being or having been an officer, rated citizen or inhabitant in such county, city, district, or borough, or township, or owning assessed or taxable property, or being liable to the assessment or payment of any tax therein.”
[His honour here stated the case.] If tlie auditors intended to charge the commissioners with this sum overpaid, it is a strange way of doing it. It is not in accordance with the 48th section of the act of the 15th April, 1834, which authorizes them “ to audit, settle, and adjust the accounts of the commissioners, treasurer, sheriff, and coroner of the
The judgment is affirmed.