Overseers of Sugarloaf Township v. Directors of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill county. This was a proceeding instituted by The Overseers of the Poor of Sugarloaf township, in Luzerne county, against the Directors of the Poor of Schuylkill county, to recover the expenses incurred in keeping and maintaining Charles Naus, an insane pauper.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill county. This was a proceeding instituted by The Overseers of the Poor of Sugarloaf township, in Luzerne county, against the Directors of the Poor of Schuylkill county, to recover the expenses incurred in keeping and maintaining Charles Naus, an insane pauper. The petition of complainants, which was presented to the Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill county December 22d 1860, set forth “ that on the seventeenth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, Charles Naus came into the township of Sugarloaf to reside, and being…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, J.'
The pauper was ordered to Schuylkill county by two several orders of removal, each in due form, and from neither of which did the directors appeal. They became conclusive evidence, therefore, that the last legal settlement of the pauper was in Schuylkill county, and that it was the duty of the directors to receive and provide for him.
What is the consequence of disobedience to an order of removal on the part of those to whom it is addressed ? A fine of twenty dollars, according to our Poor Law of 1836, and nothing more. The statute gives…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Overseers of Versailles v. Overseers of MifflinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1840
3Cited by1 opinion
- Brushvalley Township Poor Directors v. Allegheny County Poor DirectorsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904