Means's Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

At the primary election held September 15, 1931, Michael DeRosa, Jr., received his party nomination for alderman of the Twelfth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh by the apparent majority of fifty-two votes over William A. Means, the incumbent. A number of electors who were interested in Means’s candidacy filed a petition for a contest in the ward’s fifth district where DeRosa had a substantial majority. DeRosa made answer and then on his behalf petitions were filed asking the court to investigate the votes cast in the eighth, tenth, twelfth and fourteenth districts,…