Crown v. Township of Ross

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

The factual matrix of these consolidated cases is uncomplicated. By order of August 11, 1980, the Ross Township Civil Service Commission dismissed two of the appellants and suspended one from the township police force. They filed their appeals to the Allegheny *590County Court of Common Pleas on October 10, 1980, tbe fifty-ninth day after the entry of the order, and considered the appeals timely filed under Section 645 of the First Class Township Code (Township Code).1 Ross Township filed motions to quash the appeals, asserting that 42 Pa. C. S. §5571(b)2 limited the…