Copelin v. Harrisburg Board of School Directors
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 34, May T., 1913, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., June T., 1913, No. 112, refusing mandamus in case of Owen M. Copelin v. The Board of School Directors of the School District of the City of Harrisburg. Petition for mandamus. Before Kunkhl, P. J., and McCarrell, J. From the record it appeared that the City of Harrisburg is a city of the third class and constitutes a school district.
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Appeal, No. 34, May T., 1913, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., June T., 1913, No. 112, refusing mandamus in case of Owen M. Copelin v. The Board of School Directors of the School District of the City of Harrisburg. Petition for mandamus. Before Kunkhl, P. J., and McCarrell, J. From the record it appeared that the City of Harrisburg is a city of the third class and constitutes a school district. The school district was created by and under the general school laws of Pennsylvania and the local Act of April 22, 1868, P. L. 1136, and was governed and operated thereunder until May…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
The learned court below decided this case on the authority of Copelin v. School Directors, 215 Pa. 359, and under the circumstances we can understand why it felt constrained to do so. Both cases were between the same parties and involved the same subject matter. The error, if it can be so regarded, was in adhering too closely to the line of reasoning upon which the former decision was based without giving due consideration to the changed conditions. When the case was here before it was regarded as a very close one, and it was affirmed, because, under the…
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