Collins v. Martin

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

The claim of St. Agnes Hospital for the treatment and maintenance of indigent sick and injured, is based on the Appropriation Act of April 13, 1925; its payment was challenged as beihg an attempt to violate article III, section 18, of the Constitution, and the fiscal officers of the Commonwealth were restrained from paying. This appeal followed.

The Act of 1925, omitting unnecessary words, reads: “The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000)......is ......appropriated to the department of welfare to pay for the treatment of the indigent sick or injured in medical…