COMMONWEALTH EX REL. v. KEENAN


88 Pa. D. & C. 289 (1954)

Commonwealth ex rel. Mattocks v. Keenan

Common Pleas Court of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

January 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloy R. Mattocks, propria persona.

Frank P. Lawley, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, and Frank F. Truscott, Attorney General, for Commonwealth.


SMITH, P.J., January 5, 1954.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus (hereinafter called "complaint") filed in forma pauperis on December 9, 1953, in this court by plaintiff, Lloy Raymond Mattocks.

Although Lawrence P. Keenan, Superintendent, Allegheny County Workhouse, is named in the complaint as defendant, the writ therein sought is not against the superintendent but against the president judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County.

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