Case ID: pa_478/html/0011-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

385 A.2d 971
    In re Nomination Petition of Milton PILGREEN and others as Candidates for the Office of Member of the Ward Executive Committee of the Democratic Party from Various Divisions of the 32nd Ward of the City and County of Philadelphia. Appeal of Objection of Moina ROBERTSON et al.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    May 9, 1978.
    Frank M. Jackson, Philadelphia, for appellant.
    Gregory M. Harvey, Philadelphia, for appellee.
    
      Before EAGEN, C. J., and O’BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX, MANDERINO and LARSEN, JJ.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The Petition for Allowance of Appeal is granted. The orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth Court are reversed and the nominating petitions of Milton Pilgreen and other appellees involved herein are declared void and of no effect. Cf. Petition of Cianfrani, 467 Pa. 491, 359 A.2d 383 (1976); Nominating of Kloiber, 26 Pa.Cmwlth. 50, 362 A.2d 484 (1976).

ROBERTS, J., having concluded that the issue was correctly decided in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia and in the Commonwealth Court, would deny the Petition for Allowance of Appeal.

NIX, J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.