Krickbaum's Contested Election
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 55, Jan. T., 1908, by William Krickbaum, from order of Q. S. Columbia Co., Dec. Term, 1907, No. 32, in election contest of Election of William Krickbaum as Associate Judge of Columbia County. Petition to contest the election of William Krickbaum as associate judge of Columbia county.
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Appeal, No. 55, Jan. T., 1908, by William Krickbaum, from order of Q. S. Columbia Co., Dec. Term, 1907, No. 32, in election contest of Election of William Krickbaum as Associate Judge of Columbia County. Petition to contest the election of William Krickbaum as associate judge of Columbia county. Before Evans, J. From the record, it appeared that the court below rejected all of the votes cast in Mifflin township at an election held on November 5,1907, and entered an order declaring that George M. Hughes and not William Krickbaum had received a majority of the legal votes cast in the county for…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
In the opinion of this court, in Independence Party Nomination, 208 Pa. 108, Chief Justice Mitchell points out, that proceedings by certiorari on a summary petition occupy a middle ground between those in common-law actions, and equity suits. And that the appellate court, in the exercise of supervisory powers in such cases will not stop with a mere inspection of the formal proceedings, but will examine the opinion of the court below so far as may be necessary to ascertain the basis of its action. This statement of the principles and practice by which this court is…
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- Fernández Antonetti v. Corte de Distrito de PonceSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1950
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