Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney-General v. Garrigues
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of quo warranto, issued out of the Supreme Court, upon the suggestion of. Thomas E. Eranklin, Esquire, Attorney-General, against William Garrigues, to show by what warrant he claims to have and exercise the office of an alderman in and for the Twenty-fourth Ward of the city of Philadelphia. An election was held on the first Tuesday of May, 1855, in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the city of.
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This was a writ of quo warranto, issued out of the Supreme Court, upon the suggestion of. Thomas E. Eranklin, Esquire, Attorney-General, against William Garrigues, to show by what warrant he claims to have and exercise the office of an alderman in and for the Twenty-fourth Ward of the city of Philadelphia. An election was held on the first Tuesday of May, 1855, in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the city of. Philadelphia, for seven aider-men, in pursuance of the Acts of Assembly in such ease made and provided. The ward is divided into six precincts, and an election was held in each, the original…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lewis, C. J.
The Act of 2d February, 1854, provides that the returns of all municipal elections (with exceptions not material to tfte present ease) “ shall be subject to the inquiry and determination of-the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Philadelphia, upon the complaint of fifteen or more of the qualified voters of the proper ward or division, which complaint shall be filed in the said court, within twenty days after such election,” &c., and “ the said court in judging of such elections shall proceed upon the merits thereof, and determine…
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