Legal Opinion

Ferguson's Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 26, 1934No. Appeal, 134PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

This appeal is from an order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County dismissing proceedings to contest the election of T. B. Williams to the office of School Director of Patton Township. The petition for a contest was quashed by the lower court because the bond for costs filed by contestants did not conform to the requirements of the Act of April 28, 1899, P. L. 118, in that one of the two sureties named in the bond had also signed the petition for the contest. The court below correctly held that this case is ruled by Knoxville School District Election, 274 Pa. 354, in…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Knoxville School District ElectionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. McChesney's Contested ElectionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937

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