Legal Opinion

Automatic Voting Machine Corp. v. Witkin

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County

Decided August 14, 1948No. 815Published

1Opinion of the Court

Flood, J.,

This is a statutory demurrer (filed before the adoption of the procedural rules governing actions at law) to a statement of claim in assumpsit seeking recovery of $10,042.50, with interest, from defendant for certain attachments furnished by plaintiff for the county’s voting machines. The voting machines had previously been sold to defendants under an admittedly valid contract. The attachments were made necessary as a result of a suit, decided by the Supreme Court, based upon the inadequacy of the voting machines to carry all of the candidates at the November 1936 general election.…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Luzerne Township v. Fayette CountySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  2. Commonwealth Ex Rel. v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
  3. Jonathan Clark & Sons Co. v. PittsburghSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
  4. Davidowitz v. Philadelphia CountySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936

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