Election Cases
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Writs of certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions and Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: Nos. 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, to January Term 1870. In the matter of the contested election of Furman Sheppard, returned as elected District Attorney; Albert W. Fletcher, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas; George Getz, City Controller; John M. Melloy, Receiver of Taxes; David P. Weaver, City Commissioner; and Thomas J. Barger, City Solicitor.
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• Writs of certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions and Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: Nos. 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, to January Term 1870. In the matter of the contested election of Furman Sheppard, returned as elected District Attorney; Albert W. Fletcher, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas; George Getz, City Controller; John M. Melloy, Receiver of Taxes; David P. Weaver, City Commissioner; and Thomas J. Barger, City Solicitor. The certiorari in Sheppard’s case was to the Court of Quarter Sessions; in the other cases to the Court of Common Pleas. The parties above named…
1Dissent
Thompson, C. J.,
filed the following dissenting opinion: — I propose to present some of the many considerations which impel me to differ in judgment from the majority of the court in the conclusions just announced in the foregoing cases; not, I am aware, that it will change the determination arrived at, or amend what I think wrong, so far as these cases are concerned; but as they result in that which concerns the people more than anything which has hitherto emanated from this court, and as the opinion delivered discusses mainly the questions involved with a view to support the conclusions…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hamilton v. NeelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
- Stansbury v. BertronSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
- Gordon v. KennedySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1810
- Young v. Corder, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1837