IN RE FUNDS IN CONEMAUGH TP.


724 A.2d 990 (1999)

In re FUNDS IN the POSSESSION OF CONEMAUGH TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS. Michael Shreckengost, Appellant.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 10, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth L. Nichols, Lower Burrell, for appellant.

William G. Barbin, Johnstown, for appellee, Conemaugh Tp.

D.C. Nokes, Jr., Johnstown, for appellee, William Richards.

Before COLINS, President Judge, and DOYLE, J., McGINLEY, J., SMITH, J., PELLEGRINI, J., FRIEDMAN, J., and FLAHERTY, J.


SMITH, Judge.

This litigation arises from $20,000 in cash found in a package on a roadside by Conemaugh Township police during a routine traffic stop in the township on February 15, 1996. The Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County declared the police officer who found the cash, Officer William Richards, to be its owner. The subject of the traffic stop, Michael Shreckengost (Appellant), contends that the court should have determined that he lost the cash and is the...

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