West Buffalo v. Walker Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Centre county. May 24. This was an appeal to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Centre county, by the Overseers of the Poor of West Buffalo township, Union county, from an order of removal of two justices of the peace, under which Benjamin Troy, a pauper, was removed from Walker township, Centre county, to West Buffalo township, Union county.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Centre county. May 24. This was an appeal to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Centre county, by the Overseers of the Poor of West Buffalo township, Union county, from an order of removal of two justices of the peace, under which Benjamin Troy, a pauper, was removed from Walker township, Centre county, to West Buffalo township, Union county. The opinion of the court below (Woodward, P. J.), confirming the order of removal, gives a full statement of the facts of the case, and was as follows: — ■ “ The history of this case is peculiar. When Benjamin…
1Opinion of the CourtGibson, C. J.
The appellant made no proof of a settlement of the pauper in Walker township, but insisted on the decision of this court quashing a previous order of removal between the same parties, as conclusive on the appellee. To remedy the failure of justice, which the consequences of the judgment in that case would have produced, interpreted as it was, a private act of the legislature was procured, to open the question of settlement, and place it on its original ground; which has been attacked in the argument for a supposed Want of constitutionality, but unnecessarily, for it is clear that the question…
2Cited by1 opinion
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