Com. ex rel. Langdon v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 33 and 34, Jan. T., 1894, by defendants, Frank G. Patterson and G. T. Bell et al., from judgments of O. P. Blair Co., March T., 1893, Nos. 78 and 79, on verdicts for plaintiffs, Samuel P. Langdon and William Louden et al.
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Appeals, Nos. 33 and 34, Jan. T., 1894, by defendants, Frank G. Patterson and G. T. Bell et al., from judgments of O. P. Blair Co., March T., 1893, Nos. 78 and 79, on verdicts for plaintiffs, Samuel P. Langdon and William Louden et al. Quo warranto to determine validity of election of officers of Altoona, Clearfield & Allegheny Railroad Co. Before Landis, P. J. From the record it appeared two writs of quo warranto were issued, the first to determine by what authority Frank G. Patterson assumed to exercise the office of the president of the Altoona, Clearfield & Allegheny Railroad Co., the…
1Opinion of the Court
COM. EX REL. LANGDON v. PATTERSON.
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
The evidence shows that the disorder at the meeting on February 23, was begun by the relator and his friends in the attempt to substitute a chairman of their own party for Mr. Patterson, who having been chosen at the original meeting was entitled to call the adjourned meeting to order, and to continue to preside unless superseded in some orderly and recognized parliamentary manner.
The subsequent disorder was at least as much the fault of the relator’s party as of the appellant, and, such as it was, was practically over before…
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