Commonwealth v. Green

Flood, J.,

The Commonwealth upon the relation of the District Attorney of Philadelphia County has brought this action of quo warranto to determine the right of respondents to hold the office of mercantile appraisers for the County of Philadelphia under the appointment of the Auditor General, acting under the authority of the Act of May 28,1937 (no. 285), which, excluding its title, reads as follows:

“Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That section one of the act, approved the seventeenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred nineteen (Pamphlet Laws, one thousand twenty-five), entitled ‘A…