Cullen Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Jones,

Tbe separate appellants, James W. Cullen and Andrew S. Moscrip, were respectively tbe Democratic and Republican nominees for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the 42nd Judicial District (Bradford County) at the municipal election of November 5, 1957. The result of the contest was so close, relatively, as to raise a substantial question concerning which of the two had actually received a plurality of the valid votes cast for the office.

These appeals are from an order of the court below based upon an adjudication in recount proceedings with…