Fitzpatrick v. Lawrence

Hargest, P. J.,

The petition for mandamus and return thereto show that the nominating petition states on its face that it is a petition to put in nomi*487nation Michael F. Fitzpatrick for the office of representative in the Tenth Representative District of Allegheny County. We assume, in the absence of any allegation to the contrary, that the candidate’s affidavit was in proper form. The Secretary of the Commonwealth, however, refused to receive the nominating petition because the affidavit of the qualified elector did not have the word “tenth” filled in showing that the elector was an elector of…