Boocks's Petition

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This is a proceeding which purports to have been commenced on February 24, 1930, under the Act of July 18, 1917, P. L. 1072, amended as to the first section by the Act of May 31, 1923. The statute really in force, however, and under which this suit should have been brought, is that of May 16, 1919, P. L. 180, which, though it did not expressly repeal or amend the Act of 1917, differs from the latter in certain minor details and ex pressly repeals all prior acts inconsistent therewith. Further confusion in the legislation grows out of the fact that by the Act of…