Harrisburg Sunday Movie Petition Case

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Maxey,

In this case Walter S. Schell, a citizen, taxpayer and duly qualified voter of the City of Harrisburg, filed a petition in the court below averring that the petitions presented to the corporate authorities of Harrisburg in order to require the submission of the question of Sunday motion pictures to the electorate of that city in 1945 are not legally sufficient to justify such submission.

The court below in an opinion by Judge Woodside found as a fact that none of the petitions contained any supporting affidavits and concluded as a matter of law that the…