Eckert's Election

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Frazer,

On November 30, 1931, the proper number of qualified electors of the twelfth ward of the City of York who voted at the preceding municipal election, presented their petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions of York County, averring that, at the election in question, the candidates for the office of assessor of that ward were George T. Eckert and Charles W. Dietz; that, by the returns from the six precincts of the ward as computed by the court of common pleas, Eckert received 1,689 votes and Dietz 1,630 votes for the office named, showing a majority of 59…