Phillips' Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 106, Jan. T., 1919, from order of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Oct. T., 1918, No. 109, setting aside returns of certain election districts on appeal from recount of the county commissioners, in the case of Computation of Vote Cast at the Primary Election held May 21, 1918, for the Office of Senator of Lackawanna County. Appeal from election contest. Before Newcomb, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 106, Jan. T., 1919, from order of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Oct. T., 1918, No. 109, setting aside returns of certain election districts on appeal from recount of the county commissioners, in the case of Computation of Vote Cast at the Primary Election held May 21, 1918, for the Office of Senator of Lackawanna County. Appeal from election contest. Before Newcomb, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court found that Albert J. Davis was duly nominated as a candidate for senator for the Twenty-second Senatorial District. David W. Phillips appealed. Errors…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fox,
David W. Phillips, the appellant, and Albert J. Davis, appellee, at the primary election held in May, 1918, were candidates for the Republican nomination for the office of senator of the Twenty-second Senatorial District of Pennsylvania. On the face of the returns as computed by the county commissioners, Phillips received the nomination by a majority over his opponent of 234 votes.
On June 3, 1918, the appellee Davis presented a petition to the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County alleging fraud and irregularities in ten election *398precincts in said county and the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Braddock Borough Election CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
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