Jermyn's Election Expenses

Citations

• 57 Pa. Super. 109
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 159

Syllabus

<p>Election law — Primary elections — •Expenses—Account—Petition for audit — Construction of statute — Act of March 6, 1906, P. L. 78.</p> <p>1. Under the Act of March 5, 1906, P. L. 78, which provides that “within twenty days after the last day for the filing of any account required by this act, any five electors of the state .... may present a petition in a court of quarter sessions of the county in which the office where such account has been filed, is situated, praying for an audit of such account,” the filing of a petition for audit with the clerk of the court of quarter sessions, the court not being in session, is a sufficient presentation of the petition to give the court jurisdiction over it.</p> <p>2. As the purpose of the Act of March 5,1906, P. L. 78, was to give a more comprehensive remedy to prevent the corruption of voters, the act is remedial legislation and calls for a liberal construction so as to give effect to the legislative intent.</p> <p>3. In the construction of statutes an interpretation is never to be adopted that would defeat the purpose of the enactment, if any other reasonable construction can be found which its language fairly bears.</p>