In re Annexation of Morrellville Borough
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 167, April T., 189$, by George W. Wagoner, mayor of tbe city of Johnstown, asisuch mayor, as well as a citizen and taxpayer of said city, from, decree of Q. S. Cambria Co., Dec. Sess., 1897, Nos. 1, 2, designating time and place for holding special elections to fill vacancies in the city offices.
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Appeal, No. 167, April T., 189$, by George W. Wagoner, mayor of tbe city of Johnstown, asisuch mayor, as well as a citizen and taxpayer of said city, from, decree of Q. S. Cambria Co., Dec. Sess., 1897, Nos. 1, 2, designating time and place for holding special elections to fill vacancies in the city offices. Petition by presidents of select and common councils c»f the city of Johnstown for the designation of time and plac-je for holding special elections to fill vacancies in the office of Select and common councils and school controller in the new ivards of the borough of Morrellville,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This was a proceeding growing out of the annexation of the borough of Morrellville to the city of Johnstown.
The case came into the court of quarter sessions upon the joint petition of the presidents of the select and the common *539council, acting by direction of a concurrent resolution of the bodies, over which they presided, and on their own behalf as citizens of the city, praying the court to make such order or decree as would give to the people of the annexed territory proper representation in the different branches of the city government, and to appoint election…
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