Legal Opinion

Fallowfield Township Election

Washington County Court of Quarter Sessions

Decided February 6, 1932No. 333Published

1Opinion of the Court

Brownson, P. J.,

-[The facts found are summarized in the court’s discussion.]

Section twenty-nine of the Act of June 10,1893, P. L. 419, as amended by the Act of April 14, 1897, P. L. 23, provides: “Whenever in any contested election the tribunal trying the ease shall decide that the ballots used in one or more election districts were, by reason of the omission, addition, misplacing, mis-spelling or mis-statement of one or more titles of offices, or names of candidates, or parties or policies represented by them, so defective as to the office in contest as to be calculated to mislead the voters…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Foy's ElectionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
  2. Snodgrass's CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920

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