Wakefield's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 4, May T., 1911, by James A. Wakefield, from decree of C. P. Dauphin Co., Jan. T., 1911, No. 173, sustaining objections to nominar tion papers of James A. Wakefield as a candidate of the Keystone Party to Congress in the Thirtieth Congressional District of Pennsylvania. Objections to nomination papers. The opinion of'the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was decree sustaining objections and declaring the nomination papers invalid.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
A majority of the court are of opinion that there should be a reversal in this case and that the nomination paper of appellant be declared valid. The nomination paper was filed agreeably to the requirements of the proviso to sec. 1 of the Act of July 9, 1897, P. L. 223. Appellant complied with every provision of the act by which the regularity of his nomination paper must be tested. Five electors of his congressional district filed with the prothonotary of Dauphin county, as required by the act, an affidavit setting forth that they had adopted the name of the Keystone party to…
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- Blumberg v. Lawrence, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County1936
- Brown's Nomination PapersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
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