Lower Merion Township Appeal

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This appeal is from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County which permitted the Township of Lower Merion to intervene, but refused to vacate the proceedings to reapportion the Township into wards under The First Class Township Code, Act of June 24, 1931, P. L. 1206, as amended, 53 P.S. §55401-408.

The appeal raises the question of jurisdiction of the court below to reapportion the Township since the adoption of Article IX, §11 of the new Constitution by the electorate on April 23, 1968, and is taken pursuant to Act of March 5, 1925, P. L. 23, as…