Swallow Election Case

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Swallow Election Case

46 A.2d 247, 353 Pa. 522, 1946 Pa. LEXIS 269

CourtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania

DecidedJanuary 9, 1946

DocketAppeal, 59

StatusPublished

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Swallow Election Case, 46 A.2d 247, 353 Pa. 522, 1946 Pa. LEXIS 269 (Pa. 1946).

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Opinion

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal by Alex Swallow, Republican nominee for School Director in the Borough of Olyphant, Lackawanna County, from the refusal of the lower court to reject the “military ballots” cast in the Municipal Election of November 6, 1945. Prior to the counting of the “military ballots”, Swallow had 1,544 votes and his nearest opponent, Joseph Bieszczad, Democrat, had 1,430 votes. After counting the “military ballots”, Swallow had 1,583 votes and Bieszczad had 1,633 votes.

For the reasons set forth in our opinion currently filed in Simon Election Case, 353 Pa. 514, we make the following order in this case.:

The order of the court below is affirmed.

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