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Commonwealth v. Collier

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 4, 1905PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Petition for mandamus, Oct. T., 1905, No. 118, in suit of Commonwealth ex rel. Hampton L. Carson, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, v. Frederick H. Collier, Marshall Brown, James R. Macfarlane, Robert S. Frazer, John D. Shafer, James S. Young, John M. Kennedy, Samuel A. McClung and John A. Evans, Judges constituting the several courts of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, being the Fifth Judicial District.

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1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bbown,

If the three persons to compose a board for the assessment and revision of taxes created by the Act of March 24, 1905, P. L. 47, for counties containing a population of not less than 300,000 nor more than 1,000,000 are county officers, the direction of the act that they shall be appointed by the court or courts of common pleas of the proper county is invalid, for section 2 of article XIV of the constitution declares that county officers shall be elected at the general elections. By the 1st section of the same article county officers consist of sheriffs, coroners,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

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