Commonwealth ex rel. Burns v. Handley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. This was a rule granted by this court upon the petition o£ Ira H. Burns, to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not be awarded to lion.
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In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. This was a rule granted by this court upon the petition o£ Ira H. Burns, to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not be awarded to lion. John Handley, President Judge and Hon. Alebed Hand, Additional Law Judge of the 45th Judicial District commanding them to meet and hold a Court of Common Pleas in the County of Lackawanna, and to compute and certify the votes cast at the general ’election held November 6, 1888, for the petitioner Ira H. Burns for the office of Additional Law Judge of said district and to issue to him the proper certificate of his…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The fifth section of the fifth article of the Constitution provides, that “whenever a county shall contain forty thousand inhabitants, it shall constitute a separate judicial district, and shall elect one judge learned in the law.” In Commonwealth ex rel. Chase v. Harding, 6 Norris, 343, it was decided that this provision, when a county attains that number of inhabitants, does not of itself constitute it a separate district; but simply indicates a certain basis upon which, at the proper time and in the proper manner, judicial districts may be declared by the legislature. This was the precise…
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