Frank v. Allen

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

A petition for review invoking our original jurisdiction,1 an answer to the petition followed by a stipu*395lation of facts and petitioner’s motion for summary judgment pose another controversy over the interpretation and application of provisions of our Constitution relating to the election of judges and the appointment power of the Governor to fill vacancies in judicial office.2

On June 15, 1979, Judge (now Justice) John P. Flaherty, Jr. resigned his judgeship on the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas to become, by appointment, a Justice of the Supreme Court…