Police lieutenant's petition for writ of mandamus seeking reinstatement after demotion to patrolman was denied. Court held that the Director of Public Safety, not the Civil Service Commission, has authority to demote police officers for just cause without a hearing.
Appeal, No. 124, Oct. T., 1897, by Ada Morehouse, from decree of O. C. Washington Co., May T., 1897, No. 27, on appeal from register of wills. McCollum, Mitchell and Fell, JJ., dissent. Appeal from register of wills refusing letters of administration. McIlvaine, P. J., found the facts to be as follows : In the year 1885 Richard IT. Stull, a citizen and resident of Washington county, married Hannah Margaret Lewis. They had born to them one child, a son, Samuel A. Stull. On February 7,1894, Hannah Margaret Stull, nee Lewis, was divorced from Richard H. Stull by the court of common pleas of Washington county on the grounds that he, the said Richard H. Stull, had committed the crime of adultery with one Ada Widdup, the appellant in this case. On the 5th day of April, 1894, Richard H. Stull and the said Ada Widdup were married in Cumberland, Maryland. They left Washington county, Pennsylvania, and went to Cumberland, Maryland, for the sole purpose of being married and to evade, as they thought, offending against the act of assembly of Pennsylvania, approved March 13, 1815, which prohibited their being married. Immediately after the marriage ceremony was performed.in Cumberland they boarded a railroad train and returned to their home in this county and lived together as man and wife until the 11th of June, 1895, when Richard II. Stull died. He died testate, mating Ada Widdup the principal beneficiary of his will. Stiers .Lewis was appointed .guardian of Samuel A. Stull, the only child of Richard H. Stull and Hannah Margaret Stull, who, on behalf of his ward, contested the probate of this will. On December 16, 1896, after a trial in the court of common ¡pleas, the will was decided by this court null and void, and Ada Widdup (who is -now Mrs. Morehouse), as widow of the said Richard H. Stull, applied for letters of administration. Stiers Lewis, guai’dian of Samuel A. Stull, the only child of Richard PI. ¡Stxxll, objected to the granting of let
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