Danville & Mahoning Poor District v. Montour County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montour county: Of September Term 1873. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the county of Mon-tour against the Directors of the Poor of Danville and Mahoning, to recover the amount paid by the plaintiffs to the State Lunatic Asylum for the support, &c., of Joseph Harmon, an insane pauper. At. the May Sessions 1859, of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montour county, Joseph Harmon was indicted for an assault and battery.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montour county: Of September Term 1873. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the county of Mon-tour against the Directors of the Poor of Danville and Mahoning, to recover the amount paid by the plaintiffs to the State Lunatic Asylum for the support, &c., of Joseph Harmon, an insane pauper. At. the May Sessions 1859, of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montour county, Joseph Harmon was indicted for an assault and battery. On the 18th of May 1859, on the suggestion of the district attorney that Harmon was insane, a jury was impannelled to inquire of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinioq of the court was delivered, February 9th 1874, by
Gordon, J.
This was an action of assumpsit brought by the county of Montour against the Poor District of Danville and Ma-honing. It appears from the evidence that one Joseph Harmon was indicted in the Quarter Sessions of that county for an assault and that he was acquitted on the ground of insanity. The court thereupon directed him to be transferred to the State Lunatic Hospital, to be there kept and maintained at the expense of the county. It is for the money thus expended for the support of this insane pauper in the Asylum, that…
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