Overseers of the Poor of Spring Township v. Overseers of the Poor of Walker Township
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 7, Feb. T., 1896, from decree of. Q. S. Centre Co., Jan. 14, 1896, affirming order of removal taken out by the overseers of Spring township. Appeal by the overseers of the poor of Walker township from the order of removal taken out by the overseers of the poor of Spring township, removing Jacob Hazel, a pauper, to Walker township.
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Appeal, No. 7, Feb. T., 1896, from decree of. Q. S. Centre Co., Jan. 14, 1896, affirming order of removal taken out by the overseers of Spring township. Appeal by the overseers of the poor of Walker township from the order of removal taken out by the overseers of the poor of Spring township, removing Jacob Hazel, a pauper, to Walker township. The court below found as facts that Jacob Hazel with his family moved into a house in Walker township in the spring of 1889 and lived in said house practically about two years and a half continuously. That the premises occupied wbre of a yearly value of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
To reverse this decree we must declare that the learned judge below erred in deciding as he did as to the credibility of the witnesses, and the weight of the testimony. But the act .which authorized a writ of error, and which regulates' our jurisdiction on appeal, does not contemplate a review of the conclusions of the court as to these matters. Exceptions are confined to “any decisions of the court upon any point of evidence or of law.” Act of March 16, 1868, P. L. 46. “ A point of evidence cannot, by any latitude of construction, be considered to mean whether the entire testimony…
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