Lawver v. Snyder County Poor Directors

Potter, P. J.,

— It is admitted that David Lawver is, and for some time has been, a pauper supported by the Directors of the Poor of Snyder County. He is an old man, upwards of seventy-two years of age, and has an incurable disease of the heart, as testified to by Dr. A. J. Herman, his physician, which has progressed so far as to greatly endanger his life should he be put to manual labor. He is a peculiar old man, with decidedly set ways of his own. Several places' were secured where he could be kept and maintained for pay with families in his neighborhood, he being unmarried and having no…