Commonwealth v. City of Philadelphia

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The Commonwealth here appeals from a final judgment entered against it in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in a suit in assumpsit. The Commonwealth sued the City of Philadelphia for care and maintenance of an insane person committed by the former Quarter Sessions Court to a state hospital for the criminally insane.

The complaint alleges that the subject person was a prisoner, that he was committed by order of the court, the dates of confinement, the expense of care and maintenance and cites the Act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 427, as amended, 19 P.S. §1351…