CHARTIERS V. JT. SCHS. v. ALLEGHENY CO. BD.


418 Pa. 520 (1965)

Chartiers Valley Joint Schools, Appellant, v. Allegheny County Board of School Directors. Upper Merion Township School District, Petitioner, v. Boehm.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 30, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Robb, with him Emerson G. Hess, Jr., and Royston, Robb, Leonard, Edgecombe & Miller, and Hess, Hess & Bagley, for appellants, in No. 24.

Bernard G. Segal, with him Thomas B. Rutter, Ralph S. Snyder, William A. Schnader, and Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, for intervenor-appellants, in No. 24, and for plaintiffs, in No. 226.

John B. Nicklas, Jr., with him Alan Miles Ruben, Deputy Attorney General, and McCrady & Nicklas, for appellees, in No. 24.

Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General, with him Byron H. LeCates, Assistant Attorney General, John P. McCord, Edward Friedman and Alan Miles Ruben, Deputy Attorneys General, for Commonwealth, amicus curiae, in No. 24, and for defendants in No. 226.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, June 30, 1965:

These two cases contest the validity of the School Reorganization Act of 19631 when tested against the provisions of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.

In the first case, four school districts2 and two Pennsylvania taxpayers3 filed a complaint in equity on May 5, 1964 in the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, sitting as...

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