Philadelphia v. Fox
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Supreme Court at Nisi Prius. This was a bill in equity, No. 6, to January Term, filed in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District, by the City of Philadelphia against Daniel M. Fox, Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, William S. Stoldey, President of the Select Council, Louis Wagner, President of the Common Council of the said city, Edward King, Henry M. Phillips, William B. Mann, Alexander Biddle, William Welsh, Charles H. T. Collis, James…
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Appeal from the decree of the Supreme Court at Nisi Prius. This was a bill in equity, No. 6, to January Term, filed in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District, by the City of Philadelphia against Daniel M. Fox, Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, William S. Stoldey, President of the Select Council, Louis Wagner, President of the Common Council of the said city, Edward King, Henry M. Phillips, William B. Mann, Alexander Biddle, William Welsh, Charles H. T. Collis, James Campbell, James L. Claghorn, J. Gillingham Fell, Gustavus S. Benson, J. H. Michener, George H. Stuart. (The proceedings…
1Opinion of the Court
5 The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
— The City of Philadelphia is beyond all ques-
tion a municipal corporation, that is, a public corporation created by the government for political purposes, and having subordinate and local powers of legislation: 2 Kent’s Com. 275; an incorporation of persons, inhabitants of a particular place, or connected with a particular district, enabling them to conduct its local civil government: Glover Mun. Corp. 1. It is merely an agency instituted by the sovereign for the purpose of carrying out in detail the objects of government — essentially…
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