Commonwealth ex rel. Chase v. Harding
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an ■ application to the Supreme Court for a mandamus by the Commonwealth, ex relatione Aaron A. Chase, against the several judges o.f the courts of Luzerne county, to compel them to meet and organize the new courts of the new county of Lackawanna, which had been created out of a portion of the old county of Luzerne.
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This was an ■ application to the Supreme Court for a mandamus by the Commonwealth, ex relatione Aaron A. Chase, against the several judges o.f the courts of Luzerne county, to compel them to meet and organize the new courts of the new county of Lackawanna, which had been created out of a portion of the old county of Luzerne. The petition set forth that the relator, Aaron A. Chase, is a citizen and tax-payer of the county of Luzerne, residing in that portion which has been designated a new county, called Lackawanna, and that he has a judgment of record in said Luzerne county which is a lien on…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
The principal question, and turning point of this case is, whether the new county of Lackawanna became a separate judicial district under the fifth section of the fifth article of the new constitution immediately upon its erection, and by that fact; or whether it remains within the Eleventh Judicial District, according to the pro*351vision in the 13th section of the Act of 17th April 1878 (Pamph. L. 17). and must- be organized under it. The 5th section of the 5th article reads thus; “ Whenever a county shall contain forty thousand inhabitants it shall constitute a separate judicial district, and…
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