Decker v. Directors of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY. Nos. 372 and 373 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 12 December Term 1887, Q. S. On October 22, 1887, proceedings were brought before two. justices of the peace of Huntingdon county by the directors of the poor of said county, under § 29, act of June 13,1836, P. L. 547, entitled “ An act relating to the support and employment of the poor,” to procure the warrant of said justices authorizing the said…
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY. Nos. 372 and 373 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 12 December Term 1887, Q. S. On October 22, 1887, proceedings were brought before two. justices of the peace of Huntingdon county by the directors of the poor of said county, under § 29, act of June 13,1836, P. L. 547, entitled “ An act relating to the support and employment of the poor,” to procure the warrant of said justices authorizing the said directors to take and seize so much of the goods and chattels and receive so much of the rents, issues and profits of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Justice Steeeett :
This is a proceeding under the 29th section of the act of June 13, 1836, to subject so much of the rents, issues and profits of certain real estate, held in trust for defendant below under his father’s will, as will be sufficient to provide for his deserted wife and child. The fact that they were both basely deserted by him is too clearly established to admit of any doubt; and the only question is whether the delinquent and heartless husband and father has such an interest in the real estate in question, or in the rents, issues and profits thereof, as is liable…
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