Forty-Sixth Ward
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 242, Oct. T., 1914, by Thomas J. Norris et al., from order of Q. S. Phila. Co., June T., 1914, Docket No. 3, disapproving report of commissioners and dismissing petition in the Matter of the Petition for the Division of the Forty-Sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia. Petition for the division of a ward.
1Opinion of the Court
Audenried, J.,
filed the following opinion:
It is improbable, of course, that the activity of the petitioners and of the others anxious for the division of the forty-sixth ward is without a definite purpose of importance to them; but it is not altogether apparent what ultimate ends they desire to accomplish. It is by no means impossible that in- the case of this application, as in other cases of this kind heretofore presented to the court, the real springs of action are to be found in local political conditions, of which the court has no knowledge and which is not a part of its duty to…
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- Diamond Street, PittsburgSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
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