Taggart v. Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney-General
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1883, No. 316. Quo warranto, issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ex relatione the Attorney General, against "William M. Taggart, commanding him to appear and show by what warrant he claims to hold and exercise the-office designated as.City Controller of the city of Philadelphia.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1883, No. 316. Quo warranto, issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ex relatione the Attorney General, against "William M. Taggart, commanding him to appear and show by what warrant he claims to hold and exercise the-office designated as.City Controller of the city of Philadelphia. The information or suggestion filed by Lewis C. Cassidy, Esquire, Attorney General of the Commonwealth, was as follows :— . . . That by an Act of, the General Assembly of this Commonwealth entitled “A further supplement to an…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mercur
The first section of the Act of 2d February 1854 extended the boundaries of the city of Philadelphia so as “ to embrace” the whole of the territory of the county of Philadelphia. While tiie boundaries of the city were thereby so enlarged as to make it co-extensive in territory with the county; yet the existing entirety of the latter was not destroyed. On the contrary, section 41 of the Act, inter alia, declares “ the county of Philaadelphia shall continue to be one of the counties of this Commonwealth.” Neither subsequent legislation nor the Constitution of 1874 has destroyed the existence of…
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