Flack v. Barbieri

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

The petitioner in this case is a District Justice of the Peace for Magisterial District 38-2-20, located in Norristown. He is here seeking summary judgment on his petition for review in the nature of a complaint in mandamus. The petitioner contends that the respondents, the Court Administrator and the State Treasurer, have wrongfully diminished his salary during his term in office in violation of Article V, §16, and Article HI, §27, of the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Petitioner began his first term in office on January 5, 1970, and completed that term on January…