Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney General v. Mathues
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 6, May T., 1904, by defendant, from order of C. P. Dauphin Co., Commonwealth Docket, No. 24, awarding writ of peremptory mandamus in suit of commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ex relatione Hampton L. Carson, attorney general of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use of Craig Biddle, F. Amédée Brégy, Mayer Sultzberger, William W. Wiltbank, Norris S. Barratt, Robert N. Willson, J. Willis Martin, Joseph C. Ferguson, Clement B. Penrose, Robert Ralston, G. Harry…
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Appeal, No. 6, May T., 1904, by defendant, from order of C. P. Dauphin Co., Commonwealth Docket, No. 24, awarding writ of peremptory mandamus in suit of commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ex relatione Hampton L. Carson, attorney general of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use of Craig Biddle, F. Amédée Brégy, Mayer Sultzberger, William W. Wiltbank, Norris S. Barratt, Robert N. Willson, J. Willis Martin, Joseph C. Ferguson, Clement B. Penrose, Robert Ralston, G. Harry Davis, Harold M. McClure, Edward W. Biddle, Thomas F. Taylor, judges learned in the law of the courts of common pleas and…
1Opinion of the Court
yon Moschzisker, J.,
The application for a mandamus in this case is in the name of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, upon the relation of the attorney general, and avers that on April 14, 1903, an act was passed by the legislature and approved by the governor of Pennsylvania, entitled “ An act to fix the salaries of the judges of the Supreme Court, the judges of the Superior Court, the judges of the courts of common pleas and the judges of the orphans’ courts,” followed by the text of the entire act (P. L. 175); that the legislature had appropriated the funds required by the act, and the same…
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