Keller v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the of Quarter Sessions of Berks county: No. 56, to January Term 1872. On the 2d of March 1871, Jacob Good made complaint before an alderman of the city of Reading against Frederick Keller, that he had deserted Mary Ann his wife, who was the daughter of the complainant, and that Keller left two children, whom he neglected to maintain.
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Appeal from the decree of the of Quarter Sessions of Berks county: No. 56, to January Term 1872. On the 2d of March 1871, Jacob Good made complaint before an alderman of the city of Reading against Frederick Keller, that he had deserted Mary Ann his wife, who was the daughter of the complainant, and that Keller left two children, whom he neglected to maintain. The defendant was brought before a justice of the peace of Lancaster county, who bound him over to appear at the Court of Quarter Sessions of Berks county, on the 7th of August then next. The defendant then appeared, and protesting that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Williams, J.
The general Act of the 13th of April 1867, for the relief of wives and children deserted by their husbands and fathers, Pamph. L. 78, repealed the local Act of the 27th of February 1867, Pamph. L. 271, so far as the latter is inconsistent with its provisions, if it did not wholly supersede it: Nusser t>. The Commonwealth, 1 Casey 126. Nor was it revived by the Act of the 15th of April 1869, Pamph. L. 75, which, though entitled a supplement to the Act of the 27th of February 1867, was intended as a supplement to the general Act of the 13th…
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