Fudula's Petition

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

At the fall election in 1927, Peter C. Fudula, the appellant, was reelected a school director of the Duryea Borough School District for a full term, beginning on the first Monday of December, 1927 (December 4th), and entered upon his duties as such on that day. On the following day (December 5th), a petition, signed by Henry Babich and fourteen other citizens and taxpayers of said school district, was presented to the proper court of common pleas, praying for the removal of Fudula and three other members of the school board for numerous specified acts of official…