Case ID: pa_284/html/0443-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney General v. Shelby.
    Argued September 28, 1925.
    Original proceeding in the Supreme Court to test right of Governor to remove a Public Service Commissioner. Miscellaneous Docket, No. 3, in case of Commonwealth ex rel. George W. Wood-ruff, Attorney General, v. S. Eay Shelby.
    Before Moschzisker, C. J., Frazer, Walling, Simpson, Kephart, Sadler and Schaefer, JJ.
    Demurrer to answer overruled and writ dismissed.
    Proceeding in quo warranto.
    An answer was filed to which the Commonwealth demurred.
    
      Wm. A. Schnader, Special Deputy Attorney General, with him George W. Woodruff, Attorney General, for Commonwealth.
    
      William Watson Smith, with him Frank B. Ingersoll, H. E. Hackney and Gordon, Smith, Buchanan é Scott, for defendant.
    November 23, 1925:
   Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

In its essential facts, this case is the same as Commonwealth ex rel. v. Benn, and both were presented together ; all that is said in the opinion there filed applies here.

The demurrer to defendant’s answer is overruled and the writ is dismissed.