Commonwealth ex rel. Reeder v. Pattison
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Dauphin county: Of May Term 1885, No. 13. This was a petition by Howard J. Reeder, praying that a mandamus might issue against Robert E. Pattison, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, commanding him to deliver to the petitioner a commission as president judge of the Third Judicial District of said Commonwealth.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Dauphin county: Of May Term 1885, No. 13. This was a petition by Howard J. Reeder, praying that a mandamus might issue against Robert E. Pattison, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, commanding him to deliver to the petitioner a commission as president judge of the Third Judicial District of said Commonwealth. The facts, as they appeared from the petition, answer and replication, upon which the cause was heard, were substantially as follows:— At the time of the adoption of the Constitution of 1874, the Hon. A. Brower Longaker was president…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The single question presented by this record is whether, under the admitted facts, the Constitution prescribes a rule for determining which of the present judges of the Third Judicial District should be commissioned as president of the several courts therein. If it does, every Act of Assembly inconsistent therewith must yield. If, on the other hand, the case before us has not been provided for by the Constitution of 1874, it is equally clear the Acts relied on by the relator are not only in force, but they fully sustain his contention and entitle him to a commission as president judge of the…
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