Case ID: pa-commw_70/html/0288-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lois Wood et al., Appellants v. A. Russell Parkhouse et al., Appellees.
    Argued June 8, 1982,
    before President Judge Crumlish, Jr. and Judges Rogers, Blatt, Craig and MacPhail.
    
      Richard C. Sheehan, for appellants.
    
      Roger B. Reynolds, Sr., with him Roger B. Reynolds, Jr., Brownback & Reynolds, for appellees.
    
      December 8, 1982:
   Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Appellants, citizens of Montgomery County, filed an action in mandamus to compel the Montgomery County Commissioners to establish a County Prison Board. They alleged that the Second Class County Prison Board Act, Act of December 10, 1980, P.L. 1152, 61 P.S. §407.1, applied to Second Class A Counties (Montgomery County).

The Commissioners’ preliminary objections asserted that this Act applied only to Second Class Counties. The Montgomery County Common Pleas Court sustained the preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer and dismissed appellants’ complaint.

We affirm on the able opinion of Hess, J., below, Pa. D. & C.3rd (1981).

Affirmed.

Order

The Montgomery County Common Pleas Court order, No. 81-13478, dated November 6,1981, is hereby affirmed.