Commonwealth v. Donoghue

McDevitt, P. J.,

This matter comes before the court on a suggestion for a writ of quo warranto addressed to Joseph Donoghue and Herbert J. McGlinchey, directing them to show by what authority they claim to possess or exercise the offices of mercantile appraisers for the City and County of Philadelphia.

The controversy revolves about the Act of May 28, 1937, P. L. 1052, which reads as follows:

“Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section one of the act, approved the seventeenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred nineteen (Pamphlet Laws, one thousand twenty-five), entitled ‘A supplement to an…