Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney-General v. Conyngham
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a quo warranto to the Hon. John N. Conyngham. The suggestion was filed, December 8d 1869, by the Attorney-General, setting forth that the respondent was exercising the office of Recorder of the Mayor’s Court of the city of Scranton, in the county of Luzerne, without lawful authority, and the writ was to show by what warrant he exercised the office. >¡ The answer, admitting that the respondent exercised the office, set forth as follows: That he had been elected and…
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This was a quo warranto to the Hon. John N. Conyngham. The suggestion was filed, December 8d 1869, by the Attorney-General, setting forth that the respondent was exercising the office of Recorder of the Mayor’s Court of the city of Scranton, in the county of Luzerne, without lawful authority, and the writ was to show by what warrant he exercised the office. >¡ The answer, admitting that the respondent exercised the office, set forth as follows: That he had been elected and duly commissioned, on the 21st of November 1861, president judge of the 11th Judicial District, composed of the county of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, October 20th 1870, by
Thompson, C. J.
The writ in this case was issued upon the relation of the attorney-general, to test the right of the respondent to exercise the office of the recorder of the Mayor’s Court of the city of Scranton, in Luzerne county, under the provisions of an'act incorporating said city, passed the 23d of April 1866, and the supplement thereto, of the 30th of March 1867. At our sitting in July last, in the Eastern District, having heard the arguments in the case previously, we entered judgment on the issue made in favor of the…
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