Milligan's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, from the decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1878, No. 185. Appeal of S. P. Milligan from the decree of the court setting aside the return of said Milligan as councilman from the Thirty-first ward of the city of Philadelphia, and adjudging that one S. A Miller was the duly elected candidate.
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Appeal, from the decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1878, No. 185. Appeal of S. P. Milligan from the decree of the court setting aside the return of said Milligan as councilman from the Thirty-first ward of the city of Philadelphia, and adjudging that one S. A Miller was the duly elected candidate. The petition of J. Rieber and others, citizens and qualified electors of said ward, set forth that at the municipal election held February 20th 1877, the electors of said ward were entitled to vote for two members of Common Council, one to serve for two…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered January 26th 1880,
2Per curiam
We find no error in this record. The seventh assignment of error, on which alone reliance was placed in the argument, is not sustained. The action of the court in rejecting the votes cast for Milligan for the office without designation of the term, we think was clearly right.
Proceedings affirmed.
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