RE: WITHDRAWAL OF CANDIDACY OF J. STAUFFER, JR.

No. 27 C.D. 1970.

1 Pa.Commw. 1 (1970)

Re: Withdrawal of the Candidacy of John Stauffer, Jr., as Candidate for Representative to the General Assembly. Re: Substitution of Richard T. Schulze for John Stauffer, Jr., as a Candidate for Representative to the General Assembly.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 23, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Thomas Miller, Esq., for objector.

Edward Friedman, Esq., Counsel General of the Commonwealth for the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with him Fred Speaker, Attorney General.

William H. Lamb, Esq., for the Republican Party of Chester County, and for John Stauffer, Jr., and Richard T. Schulze.

Argued September 30, 1970, on stipulated facts before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH and BARBIERI, sitting as a panel.


OPINION BY JUDGE BARBIERI filed October 23, 1970:

Before this Court is the question as to who is the legally constituted Republican candidate for Representative to the General Assembly from the 157th Legislative District of the Commonwealth. The issue is raised on two "objections", purportedly filed under the Pennsylvania Election Code (Act of June 3, 1937, P.L. 1333, as amended, 25 P.S. 2600). The first of these

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