Flood Appeal

372 Pa. 486 (1953)

Flood Appeal.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued January 5, 1953.

February 10, 1953.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

James Lenahan Brown, with him Joseph V. Kasper, for appellant.

R. Lawrence Coughlin, for appellee.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, February 10, 1953:

The appellant, Daniel J. Flood, was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Eleventh Pennsylvania District (consisting of Luzerne County) at the general election on November 4, 1952. His Republican opponent was Edward J. Bonin. The official canvass and computation of the returns,…