Legal Opinion

Frankhouser v. Harding

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Somerset County

Decided January 25, 1977No. Criminal Docket 1977, no. 23, and no. 22 Civil Docket 1977Published

1Opinion of the Court

COFFROTH, P. J.,

The question in this case is whether we should grant an application to proceed in forma pauperis by filing a replevin action without prepayment of costs.

Petitioner is Robert Frankhouser, plaintiff in the above entitled civil action and defendant in the above entitled criminal action, hereinafter called petitioner, who is incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, Pa. on a sentence from another court. John F. Harding, respondent and defendant in the above entitled civil action, hereinafter called respondent, is a Pennsylvania state police officer of the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Boddie v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. United States v. KrasSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  3. Lubin v. PanishSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  4. Ortwein v. SchwabSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  5. Ortwein v. SchwabSupreme Court of the United States · 1973

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