Kerr v. Trego
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In tbe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. This was a proceeding founded on a bill filed by Wilson Kerr and others against Samuel Cavin, Charles B. Trego, and others, with a prayer for a special injunction.
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In tbe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. This was a proceeding founded on a bill filed by Wilson Kerr and others against Samuel Cavin, Charles B. Trego, and others, with a prayer for a special injunction. The bill set forth that certain acts were passed by the General Assembly, approved respectively on the 2d February 1854, 21st April 1855, 13th May 1856, 30th March 1858, and 25th March 1861, creating and establishing the Select and Common Councils of -the city of Philadelphia, imposing upon them certain duties, and conferring on them certain powers relative to the government of the said city,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Lowbxe, C. J.
On account of the immense importance of this case to the city of Philadelphia, we all consented to sit together at the hearing of this motion for a preliminary injunction, hoping that we might thus bring to a speedy termination this very unpleasant difficulty. We have heard and carefully considered the ca-se, and now proceed to pronounce the judgment of the law upon it, without expressing any opinion upon the merits or demerits of any of the parties to it, beyond what is necessary to the decision of the very point of the controversy. We…
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