Commissioners of the Rouse Estate v. Directors of Poor of McKean County Poor District
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 448, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiffs, from decree of Q. S. McKean Co., October Term, 1898, No. 69, discharging rule for mandamus.
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Appeal, No. 448, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiffs, from decree of Q. S. McKean Co., October Term, 1898, No. 69, discharging rule for mandamus. Petition of the Commissioners of the Rouse Estate who are invested with the duties and functions of overseers of the poor of Warren county, praying the court to grant a rule upon the Directors of the Poor of McKean County Poor District to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel them to pay certain moneys expended by petitioners in the ease of Milo D. Wheeler, a pauper. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court, Morrison,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The county commissioners of Warren county, by virtue of their office, are commissioners of the Rouse estate, who have east upon them, by special acts of assembly of April 8, 1864, and April 4, 1866, all the duties and functions of overseers of the poor for the county of Warren.
On October 2,1893, the commissioners presented their peti-' tion to the court of quarter sessions of McKean county, averring :
1. That on 7th of January, 1890, one Milo D. Wheeler became an inhabitant of McKean County Poor District, and with-his wife and family, resided in Corydon township,…
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