Laub's Expense Account
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
With all due deference to the majority of the Court, the following dissenting opinion is filed in order to clarify my dissent from the Order and Decree entered by the majority of the Court in the above entitled case. This matter came before the Court en Banc upon exceptions to the Report of the Auditor.
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With all due deference to the majority of the Court, the following dissenting opinion is filed in order to clarify my dissent from the Order and Decree entered by the majority of the Court in the above entitled case. This matter came before the Court en Banc upon exceptions to the Report of the Auditor. In his Report, the Auditor made no findings of fraud or corruption in the election and did not recommend the certification of any of the items in Judge Laub's account either to the District Attorney of Northampton County or to the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He did,…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
These appeals have their origin in a petition filed by Nellie Snyder and sixteen other persons under section 1611 of the Pennsylvania Election Code of June 3, 1937, P. L. 1333, 25 PS sec. 3231, praying for an audit of the expense account filed by Herbert F. Laub, the successful candidate for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County at the election held on November 2, 1937. An auditor was duly appointed.
In view of our disposition of the case, we shall not recite the proceedings intervening between the appointment of the auditor on January 13, 1938 and. the filing of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bechtel's Election ExpensesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
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