COM. ex rel. SHUMAKER v. N.Y. & PA. CO., INC.


378 Pa. 359 (1954)

Commonwealth ex rel. Shumaker, Appellant, v. New York & Pennsylvania Company, Inc.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 28, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Alan Sherman, with him Clark H. Painter and Merle E. Wiser, District Attorneys, William D. Henning, Francis X. McCulloch and Herbert R. Carroll, for appellants.

Lewis H. Van Dusen, Jr., with him John Ames Ballard, Henry S. Drinker and Robert J. Trace, Deputy Attorney General, for appellees.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY and MUSMANNO, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE CHIDSEY, June 28, 1954:

On December 19, 1949 an action in equity was filed in the Common Pleas Court of Dauphin County in the name of the Commonwealth on relation of Clyde S. Shumaker, District Attorney of Butler County, and W.P. Geary, District Attorney of Clarion County, five persons individually and as officers of the Allegheny County Sportsmen's League, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, and by that corporation, against the New York & Pennsylvania...

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