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· 11/9/1868

Magill's Appeal

Citations

  • 59 Pa. 430
  • 1869 Pa. LEXIS 37

How courts have described this case

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  • local regulations added to state regulations in the dispensing of gasoline were not preempted by the state police regulation
  • court may declare an ordinance to be an invalid exercise of the police power only where it is proven that its provisions are clearly unreasonable and have no relation to public safety
  • court may declare an ordinance to be an invalid exercise of the police power only where it is proven that its provisions are clearly unreasonable and have no relation to public safety

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Judges: Agnew, Read, Sharswood, Thompson, Williams

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