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2 Yeates 429

Respublica v. Wray

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 15, 1799

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1799-03-15

A Rule was granted at the last term, on the affidavit filed, that the defendant should show cause why an information in the nature of quo warranto, should not be filed against him for assuming and exercising the office of treasurer of Cumberland county. Messrs. Dallas and J. B. M’Kean for the defendant, now showed cause from records, affidavits and other proofs.

Decided 1799-03-15

By the court.

¶1Probable grounds have been shown, to induce us to put the matter in a train for trial. “A jury will judge of the facts. All that we are to look to, is that a fair doubt is raised, and that the parties applying, come with the clean hands, and inproper time.”-3 Term. Rep. 588, 589. A mere cival right will be tried on this information prayed for, and the method of procedure is no violation of the constitution. Reasonable suspicions have been excited in our minds, *433to make us doubt the legality of Wray’s appointment. Two of the commissioners gave him their votes; if one of them was prevailed on to give him his vote, under his engagment to resign, there has been a deception, which would defeat the act.

¶2Both of these commissioners were dissatisfied with the sureties offered an the 1st and 13th June. He enters on the duties of his office notwithstanding, and it is not until the 20th June that he offers them such security as they approve of. Let the information be filed.

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