Commonwealth v. Krepps
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 323, Jan. T., 1912, by relator, from judgment of C. P. Fayette Co., June T., 1912, No. 570, discharging writ of quo warranto in case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex rel., John F. Dawson v. O. P. Krepps. Quo warranto to determine authority to exercise office of township supervisor of Menallen Township. Before Van Swearingen, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was in discharging the writ.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
This controversy grows out of the confusion resulting from lengthening the term of township and other local offices, and in the change made in the time for holding municipal elections under the constitutional amendments of 1909 and the Act of June 14, 1911, P. L. 942. The case was heard in the court below on petition, answer and demurrer, and, therefore, all facts properly pleaded must be accepted as true. At the February election in 1909, the relator was elected township supervisor for the unexpired term of his predecessor in office who had resigned. The term for…
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