Padden's Contested Election

Citations

• 264 Pa. 183
• 107 A. 694
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 615

Syllabus

<p>Election law — Amendment—Appeal—Practice, Supreme Court— Assignments of error.</p> <p>1. On an appeal to the Supreme Court in an election contest, the appellant will not he permitted to raise questions of law not raised in the court helow, by an amendment to the original petition, adding certain averments and a prayer that the “entire return may be thrown out.”</p> <p>2. Assignments of error on an appeal in an election contest, will not be considered, where they fail to set out the matter complained of in totidem verbis, or to indicate the page in the paper-book or appendix where the matter included may be found.</p> <p>3. On such an appeal, if the material instances wherein the master and the court below differ, involve findings or statements of fact by the latter, such findings or statements must be accepted by the appellate court.</p>