Commonwealth v. Hopkins
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 78, April T., 1913, by defendant, from order of County Court of Allegheny County, No. 303, 1912, Commonwealth Docket, awarding support in case of Commonwealth v. Andrew Hopkins. Proceedings for support. From the record it appeared that at the time of these proceedings Florence S. Hopkins, the wife of Andrew Hopkins, had her residence with her four minor children, in Ohio.
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Appeal, No. 78, April T., 1913, by defendant, from order of County Court of Allegheny County, No. 303, 1912, Commonwealth Docket, awarding support in case of Commonwealth v. Andrew Hopkins. Proceedings for support. From the record it appeared that at the time of these proceedings Florence S. Hopkins, the wife of Andrew Hopkins, had her residence with her four minor children, in Ohio. The case turned chiefly upon the constitutionality of the Allegheny County Court Act of May 5, 1911, P. L. 198. The court made the following order: And now, to wit, June 24, 1912, after hearing, the defendant,…
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Opinion by
Head, J.,
Following a hearing in the county court of Allegheny county, the defendant appellant was ordered by that court to pay the sum of $40.00 per month “for the support of his four minor children,” etc. From that order he appeals. His principal assignment of error is “the court erred in assuming jurisdiction in this case.”
Whether or not the county court was lawfully invested with jurisdiction to hear and determine a desertion case could not, we think, depend on the form of the recognizance entered into by the appellant before the magistrate who took the information and issued the…
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