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LENNOX v. CLARK

372 Pa. 355 (1953)

Lennox, Appellant, v. Clark, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 5, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grover C. Ladner, for all appellants hereinafter recited, with him Joseph E. Gold and Francis X. McClanaghan, for Sheriff, Herbert S. Levin, for County Commissioners, Benjamin R. Donolow, for Recorder of Deeds, Henry M. Dubbs, Jr., for Clerk of Quarter Sessions and M. Phillip Freed, for Coroner.

Grover C. Ladner and Ethan Allen Doty, for Register of Wills.

Nochem S. Winnet, with him Charles M. Solomon, Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, Joseph H. Lieberman and Michael J. Matta, for Board of Revision of Taxes and Registration Commission, appellees.

D. Barlow Burke, for Prothonotary, appellee.

Abraham L. Freedman, City Solicitor, with him Robert M. Landis, First Deputy City Solicitor, for defendants.

Eric A. McCouch, with him Wm. Barclay Lex, for Committee of Seventy, amicus curiae.

Marshall H. Morgan, for interested parties, under Rule 46.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, January 5, 1953:

Broadly speaking, we are here called upon to decide the effect wrought upon the officers and employes of the former Philadelphia county offices by the City-County Consolidation Amendment of the Constitution (adding section 8 to Article XIV thereof), the First Class City Home Rule Act of April 21, 1949, P.L. 665, and the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter adopted by the electors April 17, 1951, effective January...

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