Commonwealth v. Green
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
QUO WARRANTO. This was a quo warranto issued by this Court under ’ the act of the 14th of June, 1836. The suggestion and other pleadings were in the following words.. “ City and county of Philadelphia, ss. James Tod, John R. Neff,’Frederick A. Raybold, George W. M‘Clelland, William Darling, and'Thomas Fleming, who sue for the commonwealth in this behalf, come here into the ’ Supreme Court for the Eastern District of.
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QUO WARRANTO. This was a quo warranto issued by this Court under ’ the act of the 14th of June, 1836. The suggestion and other pleadings were in the following words.. “ City and county of Philadelphia, ss. James Tod, John R. Neff,’Frederick A. Raybold, George W. M‘Clelland, William Darling, and'Thomas Fleming, who sue for the commonwealth in this behalf, come here into the ’ Supreme Court for the Eastern District of. Pennsylvania, and for the said commonwealth give the Court here to understand and be informed, that Ashbel Green, William. Latta, Thomas Bradford, Solomon Allen, and Cornelius C.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J. —
To extricate the question from the multifarious mass of irrelevant matter in which it is enclosed, we must, in the first place, ascertain the specific character of the General Assembly, and the relation it bears to the corporation which is the immediate subject of our cognizance. ' This assembly has been called a quasi corporation; of which it- has no feature.' A quasi corporation has capacity to sue and be sued as an artificial person; which the assembly has not. It is also established bylaw; which the assembly is not.. Neither is the…
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