Addison Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The principal question in this case is whether a general statute, which authorizes an appeal by an aggrieved employee from a decision of a civil service board of any city to the court of common pleas of the county, worked a nullification of the provision in Philadelphia’s Home Eule Charter which restricts the scope of judicial review to be accorded by the court of common pleas upon an appeal thereto from a decision of the Civil Service Commission of Philadelphia.

On the present appellee’s appeal to the court below from a decision of the Philadelphia Civil Service…