Poor District of Galeton v. Poor District of Stewardson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 32, Oct. T., 1901, by defendant, from order of Q. S. Potter Co., March Term, 1900, No. 37, certifying settlement of an insane pauper in the case of Poor District of Galeton v. Poor District of Stewardson. Rule to show cause why the poor district of Stewardson should not be certified as the legal settlement of Andrew Benson, a pauper lunatic in the insane asylum at Warren, Pa. The court in an opinion by Olmsted J., made the rule absolute.
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Appeal, No. 32, Oct. T., 1901, by defendant, from order of Q. S. Potter Co., March Term, 1900, No. 37, certifying settlement of an insane pauper in the case of Poor District of Galeton v. Poor District of Stewardson. Rule to show cause why the poor district of Stewardson should not be certified as the legal settlement of Andrew Benson, a pauper lunatic in the insane asylum at Warren, Pa. The court in an opinion by Olmsted J., made the rule absolute. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This is an appeal from an order certifying that Andrew Benson, an insane pauper, was legally settled in the defendant district at the time of his commitment to the hospital for the insane at Warren. Neither the jurisdiction of the court nor the regularity of the proceedings is questioned. The complaint is that under the evidence the court should have reached a different conclusion, and we are asked to review the case upon the evidence as if this were an appeal, giving to that term the mean*429ing ascribed to it prior to the Act of May 9, 1889, P. L. 158. But it is well settled that…
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