Commonwealth ex rel. Armstrong v. Commissioners
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Mandamus to tbe Commissioners of Allegheny county. This was an alternative mandamus awarded by the Supreme Court on the relation of William G. Armstrong, against the Commissioners of Allegheny county, in which the opinion of this court rendering judgment for the relator on the return filed by the respondent, was delivered on the 19th of November 1860: 1 Wright 277.
1Opinion of the Court
After this judgment, the court entertained a motion on behalf of the respondents for leave to file an amended return, which was allowed November 24th 1860. The substance of this return is fully set forth in the opinion of this court, overruling it and
confirming the former decree, which was delivered,
by Thompson, J.
After judgment for the relator in this case, we entertained a motion on behalf of.the respondents to amend their return to the alternative writ of mandamus, in the particular hereinafter to be noticed, and without stopping to discuss any question of practice, as to the right to…
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