Legal Opinion

Blair County Judicial Election

Pennsylvania Department of Justice

Decided December 28, 1921Published

Petition of electors of Blair County for contest of election of President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Before the Attorney-General.

1Opinion of the Court

Alter, Att’y-Gen.,

This is a petition to the Attorney-General, asking that proceedings may be had as provided by act of assembly to *312determine whether Hon. Thomas J. Baldrige or Robert A. Henderson, Esq., was elected President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Blair County at the election held on Nov. 8, 1921.

The averments of the petition show no fraud and no error which would effect any change in the result of the election. The petition is singularly free from any allegation that any illegal vote was cast or any legal vote rejected, or that the certified result does not truly reflect the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Commonwealth, ex rel. Gast v. KellySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
  2. Knight v. Coudersport BoroughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
  3. West Mahanoy Township's Contested ElectionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
  4. Cramer's Election CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
  5. Cheetham v. McCormickSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896

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