People ex rel. Thies v. Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad

Mr. Justice Farthing,

specially concurring: ■

I can only concur specially in this decision. Its plain effect, which should be freely stated, is to overrule the decision in People v. Peoria and Eastern Railway Co. 354 Ill. 30. In that case, at page 32, it is said: “Since the amendment [to sections 15 and 33 of the Pauper act] such care and support, with the same exceptions, may be given not only to all persons requiring the care and support of the county but also of the township.” The reference to support of poor persons by counties, in section 33 as amended in 1931, was distinctly to counties…