DeWalt v. Bartley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 000 January Term 1892, Sup. Ct.' On January 28,1892, Hiram DeWalt and others filed a petition praying the Supreme Court for leave to file in that court a bill in equity, a copy of which accompanied the petition, and to move for an injunction against the defendants named in the bill, upon the grounds therein set forth.
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No. 000 January Term 1892, Sup. Ct.' On January 28,1892, Hiram DeWalt and others filed a petition praying the Supreme Court for leave to file in that court a bill in equity, a copy of which accompanied the petition, and to move for an injunction against the defendants named in the bill, upon the grounds therein set forth. The bill referred to named as defendants William Bartley, Theodore B. Stulb and J. P. J. Sensenderfer, commissioners of Philadelphia county, and Thomas M. Thompson, controller, and George D. McCreary, treasurer of said county. Its averments and prayers for relief, the latter…
1Per curiam
Application has been made to us for permission to file the *527above bill in this court, and to take original jurisdiction of the case. The prayers for relief in the said bill are as follows :
“ 1. That the act of assembly, approved on June 19,1891, entitled “ An Act to regulate the nomination and election of public officers; requiring certain expenses, incident thereto, to be paid by the several counties, and certain other expenses to be paid by the commonwealth, and punishing certain offences in regard to certain electors,” is unconstitutional, and therefore void; or,
“ 2. That so much thereof is…
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