Case ID: pa_195/html/0515-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Mitchell,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. Shires.
    Argued Feb. 20, 1899. Reargued, Jan. 80, 1900.
    Appeal, No. 131, Jan. T., 1898, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Jan. T., 1898, No. 105, on quo warranto, in case of Com. ex rel. John R. Jones, District Attorney, v. George H. Shires et al.
    Before Green, C. J., McCollum, Mitchell, Dean, Fell, Brown and Mestrezat, JJ., on reargument.
    Reversed.
    Quo warranto to determine title to office of school controllers of the city of Scranton.
    
      F. W. Edgar and David J. Reedy, with them E. O. Neweomb, for appellants.
    
      I. II. Burns, with him II. 0. Watrous, for appellee.
    April 30, 1900:
   Opinion by

Mr. Justice Mitchell,

This case raises the same question and was argued in connection with Com. ex rel. v. Gilligan, ante, p. 504, opinion filed today. For reasons there given the judgment is reversed and judgment is now entered for respondents (appellants) with costs.