Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. McLaughlin

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 5, 1888PublishedCited by 4 opinions

PETITION FOR A MANDAMUS TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. No. January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 116 March Term, 1887, Q. S.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion,

Me. Justice Paxson :

This was a petition by I. P. Wanger, Esq., district attorney of Montgomery county, praying for a writ of mandamus to the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery county, to enforce the judgment and sentence of the said court *522in the above stated case, by an order directed to the sheriff of said county requiring him forthwith to abate the nuisance complained of at the costs of the defendant.

The defendant had been convicted in the court below of maintaining a public nuisance, and had been sentenced to pay a fine and to abate the nuisance. The nuisance…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Kaufman Construction Co. v. HolcombSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
  2. Horowitz v. BeamishSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  3. In re KnarrSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
  4. Ginsburg v. Delaware County Board of Law Examiners, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Delaware County1937

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