Overseers of the Poor v. County of Armstrong
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 229, April T., 1899, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Armstrong Co., March T., 1899, No. 187, in favor of defendant on case stated. Opinion by Orlady, J. Beebbr, J., dissents. Case stated.
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Appeal, No. 229, April T., 1899, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Armstrong Co., March T., 1899, No. 187, in favor of defendant on case stated. Opinion by Orlady, J. Beebbr, J., dissents. Case stated. Before Rayburn, P. J. It appears from the case stated that this was an action to recover the sum of $62.15 from the county of Armstrong by the township of Boggs for the cost of relief and burial of an indigent pauper whose place of settlement was unknown, brought under the act of June 6, 1898. The court below held that the act of 1893 was unconstitutional and judgment was entered for…
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Orlady, J.,
By the case stated on which this appeal is founded it appears that a nonresident of Armstrong county, while in the plaintiff township, became injured and sick, and being in indigent circumstances, an order of relief was legally taken out before two justices of the peace of the township in which he then was. This order was duly served upon the overseers of the poor of that township, who thereupon supplied the pauper with and paid for the necessary support, shelter, medicine, medical attendance and nursing while he lived, and the proper expenses incident to his burial; that…
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