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VEGA APPEAL

383 Pa. 44 (1955)

Vega Appeal.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward V. Sciamanna, with him Thomas L. Anderson, for appellant.

Frederic G. Weir, with him Richard DiSalle, Adolph L. Zeman, Robert L. Zeman, William S. Livengood, Jr., and Zeman & Zeman, for appellee.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, November 14, 1955:

The question concerns the propriety of the dismissal from office of Henry Vega, a Chief of Police in the Borough of Burgettstown, Washington County, by the Council of the Borough under the provisions of the Act of June 15, 1951, P.L. 586, regulating police tenure in boroughs and other designated municipalities having a police force of less than three members.

Vega became a policeman in 1947, and...

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