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ADDISON CASE

385 Pa. 48 (1956)

Addison Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

April 16, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Stern, Deputy City Solicitor, with him David E. Pinsky, Herbert M. Linsenberg and William D. Valente, Assistant City Solicitors and Abraham L. Freedman, City Solicitor, for appellant.

Samuel Gorson, for appellee.

Irving R. Shull, with him Alfred I. Ginsburg and Bernard L. Lemisch, for amicus curiae.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE JONES, April 16, 1956:

The principal question in this case is whether a general statute, which authorizes an appeal by an aggrieved employee from a decision of a civil service board of any city to the court of common pleas of the county, worked a nullification of the provision in Philadelphia's Home Rule Charter which restricts the scope of judicial review to be accorded by the court of common pleas upon an appeal thereto from a decision of...

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