Hoopes v. Bradshaw
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 201, Oct. T., 1910, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Beaver Co., June T., 1910, No. 192, for defendant on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Charles Hoopes.v. Charles W. Bradshaw, Prothonotary of Beaver County. Petition for mandamus.
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Appeal, No. 201, Oct. T., 1910, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Beaver Co., June T., 1910, No. 192, for defendant on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Charles Hoopes.v. Charles W. Bradshaw, Prothonotary of Beaver County. Petition for mandamus. Before Holt, P. J. The case was tried by the court without a jury under the Act of April 22, 1874, P. L. 109. The 'Case turned upon the constitutionality of the Act of May 8, 1909, P. L. 475. Error assigned was in entering judgment for defendant and refusing mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The appellant, a member of the bar of the Allegheny county courts and of this court, in good standing, presented his praecipe to the prothonotary of the court of *487common pleas of the court below for his appearance for the defendant in a certain proceeding therein pending. With his praecipe he exhibited a certificate of his admission on October 5, 1905, as a practitioner before this court. The prothonotary having refused to accept the praecipe and to recognize the appellant as a member of the bar of Beaver county, he applied to the court below for a mandamus…
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