Legal Opinion

Noxen Township Poor Dist. v. Monroe Township Poor Dist.

Wyoming County Court of Quarter Sessions

Decided August 1, 1921No. 1Published

Citation for an order of removal. Q. S. Wyoming Co., Jan. Sess., 1921, No. 1.

1Opinion of the Court

Terry, P. J.,

This is a proceeding under the Act of April 6, 1905, P. L. 112, instituted by the Overseers of the Poor of Noxen Township to secure an order removing one William Long, his wife and their three minor children, poor persons, from that poor district to Monroe Township Poor District, where, it is alleged in the petition, they have a legal settlement.

From the pleadings and the depositions taken we find the following

Facts.

1. Said Long and his family lived in and became chargeable to Monroe Township, Wyoming County, in 1915, and it is undisputed that they then had a legal settlement…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Directors of Home for Destitute v. Fayette County AlmshouseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
  2. Brady Overseers v. Clinton OverseersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
  3. Westmoreland County Poor District v. Kiskiminetas Township Poor DistrictSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1913

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