Overseers of Limestone Township v. Overseers of Licking Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Clarion County. Appeal by the overseers of the poor of Limestone Township from an order of a magistrate removing a pauper, Mary Ann Hepler, to the said township from Licking Township. From the depositions taken upon the appeal the following facts appeared: Mary Ann Hepler, the pauper, was born in 1846, and was the illegitimate child of Sophia Hepler..
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Clarion County. Appeal by the overseers of the poor of Limestone Township from an order of a magistrate removing a pauper, Mary Ann Hepler, to the said township from Licking Township. From the depositions taken upon the appeal the following facts appeared: Mary Ann Hepler, the pauper, was born in 1846, and was the illegitimate child of Sophia Hepler.. The mother was unmarried and lived with her father, who was a farmer in Limestone Township. The pauper lived with her mother at the house of Adam Hepler, the mother’s father, until 1856. In that year the…
1Per curiam
The act of June 13th, 1836, expressly enacts that “ every illegitimate child shall be deemed to be settled in the place where the mother was legally settled at the time of the birth of such child.” The act of April 27th, 1855, only confers upon illegitimate children the capacity to take or inherit real and personal estate from their mother. But none of the other rights of legitimate children are conferred upon them. It follows that *478their settlement does not follow the settlement of the mother ■when she changes her settlement. The settlement of them both remains until they acquire a new…
2Cited by1 opinion
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