Opinion

Stoltz v. McConnon

  • 473 Pa. 157
  • 373 A.2d 1096
  • 1977 Pa. LEXIS 702
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Jun 3, 1977
Status
Published
Author
Pomeroy
On the bench
Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino, Jones
Cited by
12 cases
Authority
More cited than 10.4%

“Pennsylvania courts have repeatedly applied the common-law rule to representative municipal bodies of limited membership in the absence of [a]ny language to the contrary in the relevant enabling statute.”

How later courts described this case

  • “Pennsylvania courts have repeatedly applied the common-law rule to representative municipal bodies of limited membership in the absence of [a]ny language to the contrary in the relevant enabling statute.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

POMEROY, Justice,

dissenting.

I dissent for the reasons set forth in the opinion of Judge Wilkinson in the Commonwealth Court. Stoltz v. McConnon, 26 Pa.Cmwlth. 82 , 362 A.2d 1121 (1976) (concurring and dissenting opinion of Wilkinson, J., joined by Bowman, P. J.).

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