Canaan Township Overseers v. Covington Township Overseers
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 34, March T., 1913, by defendant, from order of Q. S. Wayne Co., Jan. T., 1912, No. 17, -affirming order of removal in case of Canaan Township Overseers v. Covington Township Overseers. Petition for order of removal. Searle, P. J., filed the following opinion: This case comes before the court upon a petition for an order of removal and answer thereto. The facts are not in dispute.
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Appeal, No. 34, March T., 1913, by defendant, from order of Q. S. Wayne Co., Jan. T., 1912, No. 17, -affirming order of removal in case of Canaan Township Overseers v. Covington Township Overseers. Petition for order of removal. Searle, P. J., filed the following opinion: This case comes before the court upon a petition for an order of removal and answer thereto. The facts are not in dispute. Prom the petition and answer it appears that about July 1, 1891, one Susan J. Niles, a resident of the township of Canaan, Wayne county, was sent to the Hospital for the Insane at Danville, and at that…
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Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The material facts of this case and the legal questions arising thereon are fully and clearly stated in the opinion of the learned judge below, and the order might well be affirmed on that opinion. It is true, a man who is chargeable to, and receiving aid as a pauper from one district cannot acquire a settlement in another so long as that relation exists: Overseers of Lewisburg v. Overseers of Milton, 18 W. N. C. 141; Lawrence Overseers v. Delaware Overseers, 148 Pa. 380. It is contended that aid furnished to a man’s wife by the overseers of the poor has the same effect…
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