229 Pa. 581 | Pa. | 1911
A majority of the court are of opinion that there should be a reversal in this case and that the nomination paper of appellant be declared valid. The nomination paper was filed agreeably to the requirements of the proviso to sec. 1 of the Act of July 9, 1897, P. L. 223. Appellant complied with every provision of the act by which the regularity of his nomination paper must be tested. Five electors of his congressional district filed with the prothonotary of Dauphin county, as required by the act, an affidavit setting forth that they had adopted the name of the Keystone party to designate their policy in the election of a congressman from that district. Following this pre-emption, the nomination paper objected to in this case, properly signed by a sufficient number of electors residents of the district, was filed in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth accompanied by a cer