Supreme Court of Pennsylvania October 5, 1885, No. 302 (Wright v. Commonwealth)

Mr. Justice Paxson

delivered the opinion of the court

This record presents the single question whether where an election is held for seven directors of a private corporation created under the Act of 1871, at which the cumulative plan of voting is employed, and five only, composing a legal quorum, of the candidates receive a plurality of votes, is such ■election valid as to the five so chosen ?