Pennsylvania Federation of Blind v. State Council for Blind

WiCKERSHAM, J.,

The petition for a writ of alternative mandamus alleges, inter alia, that plaintiff is a corporation composed exclusively of blind persons; that it is generally recognized as a spokesman of the “rank and file” of the blind, in contradistinction from the agencies for the blind controlled by the sighted; that the body from which the performance is sought is State Council for the Blind, a departmental administrative board within the Department of Welfare, created by The Administrative Code of April 9, 1929, P. L. 177, sec. 444; that relator by many letters and personal…