Poor District of Shrewsbury Township v. Poor District of Shrewsbury Township
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 16, Feb. T., 1902, by defendant, from order of Q. S. Lycoming Co., March T., 1901, No. 80, dismissing appeal from order of removal in case of Overseers-of the Poor of the Poor District of Shrewsbury Township, Lycoming County, v. Overseers of the Poor of the Poor District of Shrewsbury Township, Sullivan County. Appeal from order of removal of pauper.
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Appeal, No. 16, Feb. T., 1902, by defendant, from order of Q. S. Lycoming Co., March T., 1901, No. 80, dismissing appeal from order of removal in case of Overseers-of the Poor of the Poor District of Shrewsbury Township, Lycoming County, v. Overseers of the Poor of the Poor District of Shrewsbury Township, Sullivan County. Appeal from order of removal of pauper. From the record it appeared that Perry George, the pauper in question, had, in 1897, purchased 200 acres of land in Sullivan county, and in the same year moved into a house which he believed was on the land. Mitchell, P. J., after…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
In disposing of an appeal from an order of court which removed a pauper to the defendant poor district the learned judge found .as a fact, that the alleged pauper had purchased a tract of land, the boundaries of which were uncertain and that the house in which he had resided was of such doubtful location as *273to the land he had purchased that it could not be satisfactorily-determined whether the house was upon his own land or not; but that inasmuch as the pauper had in fact purchased the land with the intention of living upon it and believed that he had built his house upon…
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- Huston Tp. Poor D. v. Benezette Tp. Poor D.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
- Overseers of the Poor of Spring Township v. Overseers of the Poor of Walker TownshipSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Overseers of the Poor v. Overseers of the PoorSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Poor District v. Poor DistrictSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1881