Scudder v. Smith

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

Two taxpayers bills were filed in the Dauphin County Court on February 25, 1938, and on March 4, 1938, respectively, against Ealph H. Smith, E. J. Thompson, Michael C. Chervenck, Jr., John E. McCone and William H. Godfrey, who were appointed to act as a commission to investigate the lubricating oil and gasoline business of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and against the Auditor General and the State Treasurer of the Commonwealth. The complaint was directed against a joint resolution approved April 29, 1937, P. L. 540, which purported to create a commission to…