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READING ELECTION RECOUNT CASE

410 Pa. 62 (1963)

Reading Election Recount Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

February 20, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving R. Segal, with him Robert L. Kendall, Jr., Robert F. Shapiro, Adam B. Krafczek, Russell J. LaMarca, and Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, for Reading Defense Committee, appellant.

Paul N. Schaeffer and Darlington Hoopes, for Berks County Citizens Association, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE EAGEN, February 20, 1963:

On September 25, 1962, a special referendum election pursuant to the Optional Third Class City Charter Law (Act of July 15, 1957, P.L. 901, 53 P.S. § 41101 et seq.) was held in the City of Reading, Pennsylvania, to determine whether or not a Council-Manager Plan of government should be adopted in that city. Paper ballots were used to submit the question to the electorate and more than 28,000 votes were cast. The...

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