Justice v. Philadelphia
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 203, Oct. T., 1907, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., June T., 1907, No. 2,885, dismissing motion for preliminary injunction in case of Henry Justice v. City of Philadelphia, John M. Walton, Controller of the County of Philadelphia, and Robert Linton. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Audenried, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was decree refusing preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
The machinery, by which the affairs of a great city are administered, is necessarily extensive and complicated. It is not strange therefore that when the legislature, in the exercise of its sovereign power enacts a law which brings about a sweeping change in the methods of supplying and operating that machinery, honest differences of opinion may arise between the various officials charged with the administration of such law, as to its true scope and the intent of the lawmaker in its enactment. Such a difference seems to have arisen in the summer of 1906— following the…
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- Leonard v. DuffinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
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