In re Sundry Citizens
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 33, Oct. T., 1896, by school directors of Kittanning township, from order of C. P. Armstrong Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 202, removing school directors of Kittanning township. Rule on school directors to show cause why they should not be removed, issued on petition of inhabitants. Before Rayburn, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was order making absolute rule for the removal of school directors.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
So far as a construction of the act of June 6,1893, is involved in this case, we have fully expressed our opinion in Ross’s Appeal from decree of court of common pleas of Greene county, decision handed down this day, ante, p. 24. It might well have been argued in the case before us under the facts, that even under the act of 1854, the directors were removable by the court of *62quarter sessions for wilful neglect, and consequently, certainly removable under the first section of the act of 1898.
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