Pulaski Township Poor District v. Lawrence County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 18, Oct. T., 1908, by defendant, from judgment of the Superior Court, April T., 1907, No. 63, affirming order of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1906, No. 97, overruling demurrer to claim in case of Pulaski Township Poor District v. Lawrence County. Appeal from Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 18, Oct. T., 1908, by defendant, from judgment of the Superior Court, April T., 1907, No. 63, affirming order of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1906, No. 97, overruling demurrer to claim in case of Pulaski Township Poor District v. Lawrence County. Appeal from Superior Court. Rice, P. J., filed the following opinion : The question involved in this case is the constitutionality of the Act of March 6, 1903, P. L. 18, or to be more exact, the constitutionality of those parts of the act which provide for the relief of needy, sick and indigent persons, who have no known legal settlement…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
There is no constitutional requirement of uniformity in-legislation, except in taxation. “The mandate of the constitution is negative, that laws on certain subjects shall not be local or special. That means that they must be general, and the uniformity which is discussed in the decisions is not a necessary requirement but only a test of the generality which the constitution commands:” Com. v. Moir, 199 Pa. 534 (552).
"With this addition which the course of argument seems to make desirable the judgment is affirmed on the opinion of the learned president of the Superior Court.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. MoirSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
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