Thirty-Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania Election Returns
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 35, Oct. T., 1917, by Herman L. Reinecke and Andrew A. Cosatch., from order of C. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1917, No. 1320, refusing petition for a recount of votes, In re Computation and Certification of the Election Returns of the Thirty-Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania, In re Election of a Representative in Congress of the United States, held November 7,1916. Petition for a recount of the votes cast for Congressmen of the Thirty-second…
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Appeal, No. 35, Oct. T., 1917, by Herman L. Reinecke and Andrew A. Cosatch., from order of C. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1917, No. 1320, refusing petition for a recount of votes, In re Computation and Certification of the Election Returns of the Thirty-Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania, In re Election of a Representative in Congress of the United States, held November 7,1916. Petition for a recount of the votes cast for Congressmen of the Thirty-second Congressional District. Before Macfarlane and Carpenter, JJ. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court refused…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
This case comes before us on a common law certiorari.
Our examination of it therefore is confined to what is disclosed by the record. What is complained of is the. conduct of the board of return judges for the Thirty-second Congressional District, wholly within County of Allegheny, in computing the returns of the last general election so far as they relate to the election of one or other of the two leading congressional candidates voted *344for at said election. The board of return judges, consisting of two of the Common Pleas judges of the County of Allegheny, began…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Election CasesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
- Commonwealth ex rel. McAndrew v. FletcherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897