Wood v. Philadelphia
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 42, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1912, No. 6,221, dismissing bill in equity in case of R. Francis Wood v. City of Philadelphia. Bill in equity for an injunction.
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Appeal, No. 42, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1912, No. 6,221, dismissing bill in equity in case of R. Francis Wood v. City of Philadelphia. Bill in equity for an injunction. From the record it appeared that the bill was filed to restrain the payment of salary to John Agnew and William Pinkerton, alleged to have been illegally appointed to the position of park guards by the commissioners of Fairmount park, without compliance with the civil service provisions of the Act of March 5, 1906, P. L. 83. The court in an opinion by Kinsey, J., dismissed…
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Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
This bill in equity was brought by a taxpayer of the city, to enjoin and restrain the Fairmount Park Commission from retaining in its employ, John Agnew and William Pinkerton, as park guards, etc., for the reason that the appointments of these guards had not been made in accordance with the provision of the Act of March 5, 1906, P. L. 81: it being alleged as the basis of the complaint, as stated in the bill, “4th, The said Fairmount Park Commission is a department of the City of Philadelphia, and as such subject of the provisions of the Act of March 5, 1906, P. L. 81,”…
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