M.B. Investments v. McMahon

OPINION BY

Judge PELLEGRINI.

M.B. Investments (MB), along with Vaughn Spencer, Michael Schorn, Angel Figueroa and Dennis Sterner, appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County (trial court) denying their motion for peremptory judgment in mandamus because the Option Agreement passed by Resolution No. 109-2005 involving the sale or conveyance of land was required to be passed by ordinance subject to Mayor Thomas W. McMahon’s (Mayor McMahon) veto. 1

The City of Reading (City) has owned approximately 560 acres of largely undeveloped land in Lower Alsace Township, Berks County…