Scowden's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county; Of October and November Term 1879, No. 882. In Equity. Bill in equity filed by J. D. Gill, Cyrus Kitchen, Alexander Power and P. A. Laffer, against Joseph Soowden, William J. Kerr, James Jamison, commissioners of Crawford county, and the city of Titusville, praying for an injunction upon the commissioners of said county, restraining them from expending public money under 'the Act of Assembly of June 12th 1879,…
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county; Of October and November Term 1879, No. 882. In Equity. Bill in equity filed by J. D. Gill, Cyrus Kitchen, Alexander Power and P. A. Laffer, against Joseph Soowden, William J. Kerr, James Jamison, commissioners of Crawford county, and the city of Titusville, praying for an injunction upon the commissioners of said county, restraining them from expending public money under 'the Act of Assembly of June 12th 1879, relating to holding of courts in certain cities of the Commonwealth. The bill alleged that the said commissioners were about to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This was an appeal by the Commissioners of Crawford county from a decree of the court below, restraining them “ from expending any public money in procuring rooms for holding courts in Titusville, or for any other purpose mentioned or contemplated by the Act of Assembly approved June 12th 1879, entitled ‘An act *425to provide for the holding of courts in certain cities of this Commonwealth.’ ”
A former Act of Assembly intended to accomplish the same result was declared to be unconstitutional by this court. See Com. ex. rel. Fertig et al. v. Patton et al., 7 Norris 258. The ground of objection was…
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