Lamb's Nomination Petition
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 355 and 356, Jan. T., 1915, by A. B. Lamb and P. C. Fenton, from final order of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Sept. T., 1915, Nos. 360 and 361, setting aside nomination petitions in the matter of the Nomination Petition Filed by A. B. Lamb for the Office of Mine Inspector and in the matter of the Nomination Petition Filed by P. C. Fenton, for the Office of Mine Inspector. Petition to set aside nomination petitions.
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Appeals, Nos. 355 and 356, Jan. T., 1915, by A. B. Lamb and P. C. Fenton, from final order of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Sept. T., 1915, Nos. 360 and 361, setting aside nomination petitions in the matter of the Nomination Petition Filed by A. B. Lamb for the Office of Mine Inspector and in the matter of the Nomination Petition Filed by P. C. Fenton, for the Office of Mine Inspector. Petition to set aside nomination petitions. Koch, J., filed the following opinion: On the 26th day of July, 1915, A. B. Lamb filed in the county commissioners’ office his petition to have Ms name printed on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
Nothing can be added to the clear demonstration of the learned court below that the office of mine inspector, to which each of the appellants seeks an election this year, is a State office, to be voted for only in an even numbered year. There was therefore an error in each nomination paper apparent on its face, and the appellee, a qualified elector of the County of Schuylkill had a status, without regard to his own party affiliation, to ask the court to prevent any nomination at the primary election for this year by any political party for an office which cannot be filled by the…
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