SECOND LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT ELECTION CONTEST (NO. 2)

No. 1379.

4 Pa. D. & C. 2d 93 (1955)

Second Legislative District Election Contest (No. 2)

Common Pleas Court of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

January 31, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Flood, James Lenahan Brown and Joseph Kasper, for petitioners.

Mitchell Jenkins, Nelson A. Bryan and Frank Slattery, for respondent.

Before Valentine, P. J., Aponick, Flannery, Lewis and Pinola, JJ.


FLANNERY, J., for the court en banc, January 31, 1955.

On November 2, 1954, an election was held for the office of Representative in the General Assembly from the Second Legislative District of Luzerne County.

The computation made by the board of election accredited the Republican candidate, Harry "Jerry" Butler, with 8,802 votes and his Democratic opponent, Stanley Meholchick, with 8,796 votes and, accordingly, Butler was returned the winner by a margin of...

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