Mahon v. Norton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 314, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Luzerne County, March Term, 1896, No. 4, dismissing bill in equity. Bill in equity, by a citizen and taxpayer of Luzerne county in behalf of himself and such other taxpayers as may join to restrain the county commissioners from using or occupying any part of the public square in the city of Wilkes-Barre for the erection of a courthouse, and particularly any part so occupied at the present time.
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Appeal, No. 314, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Luzerne County, March Term, 1896, No. 4, dismissing bill in equity. Bill in equity, by a citizen and taxpayer of Luzerne county in behalf of himself and such other taxpayers as may join to restrain the county commissioners from using or occupying any part of the public square in the city of Wilkes-Barre for the erection of a courthouse, and particularly any part so occupied at the present time. All the facts necessary to an understanding of the case appear by the opinion of Searle, P. J., of the 34th judicial district,…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
All that is necessary to be said in relation to the questions involved in this contention will be found in the clear and convincing opinion of the learned president of 34th judicial district who specially presided at the hearing. We have no doubt as to the correctness of his general conclusion recited in the first specification of error, the substance of which is, that the county *287commissioners have a right to erect and maintain on the public square in the city of Wilkes-Barre, upon the location of the present courthouse, a new and enlarged courthouse of sufficient size to…
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