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Whitehall Borough Incorporation Case

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Nov 24, 1947
55 A.2d 746 (Pa. 1947)

Opinion

October 3, 1947.

November 24, 1947.

Before MAXEY, C. J., DREW, LINN, STERN, PATTERSON, STEARNE and JONES, JJ.

Appeals, Nos. 183, 184 and 185, March T., 1947, from order of the Superior Court, April T., 1948, Nos. 20, 21 and 22, respectively, affirming order of Q. S., Allegheny Co., Oct. T., 1946, Nos. 32, 33 and 161, respectively, in re petitions for incorporation of Borough of Baldwin, and petition for incorporation of Borough of Whitehall. Order affirmed.

Same case in Superior Court: 161 Pa. Super. 397.

Proceedings upon petitions for incorporation of entire Township of Baldwin into a borough, and upon petion for incorporation of parts of Baldwin and Bethel Townships into Borough of Whitehall. Before SOFFEL and RICHARDSON, JJ.

Order entered incorporating the Borough of Whitehall, and orders entered dismissing petitions for incorporation of Township of Baldwin. Commissioners and freeholders of Baldwin Township, respectively, appealed to the Superior Court, which affirmed the orders of the court below. Appeals by Commissioners, and freeholders of Baldwin Township, respectively, to Supreme Court allowed.

Irwin I. Tryon and Jason Richardson, for appellants.

Robert A. Rundle, Louis Rosenberg and Wright Rundle, for appellees.


The order of the Superior Court affirming the order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County is affirmed on the opinion of President Judge RHODES.


Summaries of

Whitehall Borough Incorporation Case

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Nov 24, 1947
55 A.2d 746 (Pa. 1947)
Case details for

Whitehall Borough Incorporation Case

Case Details

Full title:Whitehall Borough Incorporation Case

Court:Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Nov 24, 1947

Citations

55 A.2d 746 (Pa. 1947)
55 A.2d 746

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