Legal Opinion
Smith Case
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 23, 1955No. 133, Miscellaneous Docket No. 10PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion ry
Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,
The question for determination is the constitutionality of the Act of January 14, 1952, P. L. 2087, amending the Act of June 16, 1836, P. L. 715, and the validity of the Rule of Court (Rule 43) adopted in pursuance of this legislation by the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County.
The Act of June 16, 1836, P. L. 715, provided for an elaborate system of Reference and Arbitration. We are concerned here, however, only with those sections of the Act, 8 to 38 inclusive, Avhich provided for compulsory arbitration. By those provisions it Avas made laAvful…
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