Laplacca v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 299, Oct. T., 1916, by defendant, from order of Municipal Court,, Philadelpliia Co., Aug. T., 1915, No. 302, directing payment of an attorney’s fee in case of Petro Laplacca and Catalda Laplacca, his wife, Abraham Wernick, Intervening Attorney, v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Petition by Abraham Wernick to compel payment to him of an attorney’s fee.
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Appeal, No. 299, Oct. T., 1916, by defendant, from order of Municipal Court,, Philadelpliia Co., Aug. T., 1915, No. 302, directing payment of an attorney’s fee in case of Petro Laplacca and Catalda Laplacca, his wife, Abraham Wernick, Intervening Attorney, v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Petition by Abraham Wernick to compel payment to him of an attorney’s fee. Prom the petition it appeared that Petro Laplacca and Catalda Laplacca, his wife, had brought suit against the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company to recover damages for the death of an infant son. Wernick was the attorney of…
1Opinion of the Court
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Head, J.,
The determination of the people of this Commonwealth to live under a written Constitution has been persistent and continuous since our beginning, yet we have just as firmly adhered to the idea of a popular representative form of government. To keep these two forces in their proper relations, every Constitution the people of the State have adopted has contained some limitation on *211the power of the people’s representatives, composing the General Assembly, in the enactment of legislation.
Onr present Constitution in Article III, Section 7 declares : “The General Assembly shall…
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