Legal Opinion

Ginsburg v. Delaware County Board of Law Examiners

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Delaware County

Decided June 21, 1937No. 794Published

1Opinion of the Court

Fronefield, P. J.,

This case arises from a petition of Frank I. Ginsburg, praying the court to “issue a writ of alternative mandamus requiring and directing the Delaware County Board of Law Examiners to present to your petitioner a certificate approving his admission to the bar of the Common Pleas Court and of the Orphans’ Court of Delaware County, Penna.” The court directed an alternative writ to issue as prayed for and it was so issued.

The Delaware County Board of Law Examiners in due time filed their motion to quash the writ, alleging: (1) Mandamus is not the proper procedure for the relief *414…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Douglass v. Commonwealth ex rel. SeniorSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1885
  2. Horowitz v. BeamishSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  3. Reese v. Board of Mine ExaminersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
  4. Commonwealth v. McLaughlinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888

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