SPYKERMAN v. LEVY


491 Pa. 470 (1980)

421 A.2d 641

Raymond T. SPYKERMAN and Lawrence Healy, Individually and in their official capacities as Members of the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Chester and John J. Matthews, Individually, and in his official capacity as Chairman of the Vacancy Board of the Township of Chester, Appellants, v. The Honorable Melvin G. LEVY, in his official capacity as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the 32nd Judicial District, and all other Judges of said district or appointed to serve in such district acting as his substitute or successor, Appellees. Connie HALES and Joseph Palazzo, Individually and in their official capacities as Members of the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Chester, Appellees, v. The TOWNSHIP OF CHESTER, Raymond T. Spykerman and William Pisarek, Individually and in their official capacities as Members of the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Chester and Frank Slavin, Individually and in his official capacity as Engineer for the Township of Chester and Thomas Stapleton, Individually and in his official capacity as Solicitor for the Township of Chester and William Phillips, Individually and in his official capacity as a Member of the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Chester, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

September 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Stapleton, Jr., Richard L. Colden, Drexel Hill, for petitioners and appellants.

Christopher F. Gorbey, Chester, for respondents and appellees.


OPINION OF THE COURT

NIX, Justice.

We are presented with a consolidated appeal. In Spykerman, Healy, and Matthews v. Levy, petitioners seek a writ of prohibition against the Common Pleas Court of Delaware County in order to prevent that court from appointing someone to fill the vacancy on the Board of Supervisors of Chester Township.1 In Hales and Palazzo v. Township of Chester...

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