Wayne Township v. Brown

This was an action by the appellee, as the assignee of a large number of accounts held by certain creditors of the appellant, which accounts were incurred by the appellant in administering the poor relief of the township.

The complaint was in five paragraphs. The appellant filed a demurrer to each paragraph of the complaint; the demurrer was overruled; the appellant refused to plead further and judgment was rendered in favor of appellee for the amount sued for.

The complaint sets out five different situations pertaining to the poor‘relief in so many paragraphs as follows:

First: Claims on…