Overseers of the Poor v. Overseers of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northumberland county: Of May Term 1877, No. 280. In the court below this case was heard upon an appeal by the Overseers of the Poor of Limestone towns'hip, from an order of removal made by two justices, directing the removal to that township of two paupers who had become chargeable in, and had been supported by, the township of Chillisquaque.
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Northumberland county: Of May Term 1877, No. 280. In the court below this case was heard upon an appeal by the Overseers of the Poor of Limestone towns'hip, from an order of removal made by two justices, directing the removal to that township of two paupers who had become chargeable in, and had been supported by, the township of Chillisquaque. The facts appeared by depositions taken upon the appeal, and were as follows: Isaac Dolby lived until September 1861 with his father, Christian Dolby, in Limestone township, Union county. In that month he…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
On an appeal from an order of removal, the Court, of Quarter *298Sessions is required by the Act of Assembly, if there be any defect in the form of said order, to amend the same, and thereupon to proceed to hear and determine the ease upon its truth and merits. And so it seems, from the case of the Overseers of Reading v. The Overseers of Cumree, 5 Binn. 81, whenever the matter is brought by appeal within the power of the Quarter Sessions, defects in the order, whether in form or substance, are to be disregarded.
It follows, that though in the order under consideration, it does not appear that the…
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- Overseers of Washington v. Overseers of BeaverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1842
- Overseers of Reading v. Overseers of CumreeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1812
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