Commonwealth v. DeLeo

Flood, J.,

This is an action of quo warranto.

Relators’ suggestion avers that the New Deal Democratic Club of the Forty-third Ward of Philadelphia is a social club, the bylaws of which provide that its membership shall be restricted to persons who are registered in the Democratic Party. The bylaws further provide that they may be amended only by a two-thirds vote of the membership after a majority of the members have at a previous meeting approved the change.

The suggestion further avers that some 63 persons who were not registered in the Democratic Party were admitted to membership over the…