Collins v. Kephart
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 13-17, May T., 1921, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Dauphin Co., Nos. 649-653, Equity Docket, 1920, on bills in equity, in case of Willis Collins v. Harmon M. Kephart, State Treasurer, and the Institution of Protestant Deaconess et al. Bills in equity for injunction. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Bills dismissed. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, among others, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,
Mr. Justice Schaffer did not hear the present appeals, because, when attorney general, he contended in the court below for the validity of the appropriations now under attack; and Mr. Justice Kephart declined to sit because his brother was named as a party to the record.
These five cases were argued at the same time and may be disposed of in one opinion; all are suits in equity, on taxpayer’s bills, to restrain the payment of moneys appropriated to certain charitable, educational or benevolent establishments, each of which is alleged to be a…
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