Wood v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 46 Pa. Super. 573
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 316

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Municipalities—Classification of cities — Public officers — Civil service requirements — Soldiers and children of soldiers— Act of March 6,1906, P. L. 83.</p> <p>The Act of March 5, 1906, P. L. 83, entitled, “An Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the cities of the first class in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, making violations of its provisions to be a misdemeanor, and providing penalties for the violation thereof,” and providing that “appointments to and promotions in the civil service of cities of the first class shall be made only according to qualifications and fitness, to be ascertained by examinations, etc.,” is unconstitutional as special legislation, violative of art. Ill, sec. 7, of the constitution, in so far as it provides in sec. 1, “that the provisions of this act shall not apply to any soldier, sailor or marine honorably discharged from service in any war for the United States government, nor to their widows or children.”</p>