O'Connor's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from and certiorari to tlie Court of Quarter Sessions oí Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 80. Petition by Patrick O’Connor, setting forth that be is a poor person and unable to work; that be .has a wife and eight children (reciting their names and ages), of whom his adult children, Michael, Ellen, James, Mary, Ann and Catharine are able to provide for bis support; and praying for an order compelling them to do so.
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Appeal from and certiorari to tlie Court of Quarter Sessions oí Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 80. Petition by Patrick O’Connor, setting forth that be is a poor person and unable to work; that be .has a wife and eight children (reciting their names and ages), of whom his adult children, Michael, Ellen, James, Mary, Ann and Catharine are able to provide for bis support; and praying for an order compelling them to do so. James O’Connor, one of said adult children, filed an answer, and the case was referred by the court to'a Commissioner, who reported that the above…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mercur
This was a proceeding under the 28th section of the Acts of June 13th 1836, and of the 15th April 1857. The former Act, inter alia, declares that the children of every poor person not.able to work, shall at their own charge, being of sufficient ability, relieve and maintain such poor person, at such rate as the court of Quarter Sessions of the county, where such poor person resides, shall order and direct. Under this Act it was held the complaint must be made by the Overseers of the Poor but by Act of 15th April 1857, P. L. 191, the court of Quarter Sessions was authorized to make such order…
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