Mosby v. Armstrong

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

In form, this was a proceeding in equity, a taxpayers’ bill against the county commissioners of Allegheny County and Robert G. Woodside, to restrain the former from printing the name of the latter, as a candidate for the office of county controller, on the ballots to be used at the primary election of September 20,1927, and, if he should receive a party nomination at that primary, then on the ballots for the general election to be held November 8, 1927.

Section 2 of the Act of June 27, 1895, P. L. 403, commonly called the “Controllers’ Act,” provides as…