Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company's Petition
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 110, Jan. T., 1901, by The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, from judgment of the Superior Court, Oct. T., 1900, No. 108, reversing the order of Q. S. Northumberland Co., No. 70, 1900, in the Matter of the Petition, Bond, Proof of Notice and Order of Court, relating to contract of Township of Coal and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Appeal from Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 110, Jan. T., 1901, by The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, from judgment of the Superior Court, Oct. T., 1900, No. 108, reversing the order of Q. S. Northumberland Co., No. 70, 1900, in the Matter of the Petition, Bond, Proof of Notice and Order of Court, relating to contract of Township of Coal and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Appeal from Superior Court. Petition for an order to direct supervisors to enter into a contract for making and repairing of roads. W. F. Bay Stewart, J., specially presiding, filed the following opinion: The…
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Opinion by
Mb. Justice Brown,
Our affirmance of the constitutionality of the act of Apjil 28, 1899, in Com. ex rel. Jones v. Blackley, 198 Pa. 372, disposes *359of one of the questions raised on this appeal. In the petition for the allowance of it, one of the reasons given was, that the act had been held to be unconstitutional by a divided court. It is true we were not unanimous; but four of the six members of the court who heard the case, our Brother Dean having been absent, concurred in the opinion filed by our Brother Mitchell, and it stands as the judgment of a majority of the whole court. The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth ex rel. Jones v. BlackleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
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