First Congressional District Election

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

The petition in this case, for a rule to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue, was filed by James M. Beck, Republican candidate for Congress in the First Congressional District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the general election held on November 6, 1928. It avers that the election returns of the County of Philadelphia, in which the first district is located, were, on Thursday, November 8, 1928, brought before the Honorable Harry S. McDevitt and the Honorable Edwin O. Lewis, “judges duly selected......to act as return judges” of…