Ritenour v. Peirce

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

The Constitution of Pennsylvania, as last amended in 1968, provides that county officers (in counties other than Philadelphia) shall consist, inter alia, of prothonotaries and “clerks of the courts”. Article IX, $ec. 4. By Section 15 of the Schedule of Article Y, these two offices were defined, until otherwise provided by law, as “the offices of prothonotary and clerk of courts of the court of common pleas of the judicial district. . . .” The case before us is a dispute as to whether under the new Constitution Robert N. Peirce, Jr., appellee, is the legally…