Scheipe v. Orlando

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from the order of the Berks County Common Pleas Court sustaining Appellee Frank Orlando’s preliminary objection in the nature of a demurrer to Appellant Walter Scheipe’s quo warranto action challenging Orlando’s appointment to the Bern Township Board of Supervisors. For the following reasons, we reverse.

On December 3, 1997, the Bern Township Board of Supervisors held a regularly scheduled public meeting. Four members of the five member board were present at the meeting. 1 During the meeting, Supervisor Kenneth Beissel submitted his letter of…