Danville State Hospital for the Insane v. Bellefonte Borough Overseers of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 474, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Centre Co., Aug. T., 1892, No. 65, for defendant, non obstante veredicto. Assumpsit for maintenance of insane paupers. Before Furst, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial the court instructed the jury to return a verdict for plaintiff subject to the question of law reserved whether there was any evidence upon which plaintiff was entitled to recover. Verdict for plaintiff.
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Appeal, No. 474, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Centre Co., Aug. T., 1892, No. 65, for defendant, non obstante veredicto. Assumpsit for maintenance of insane paupers. Before Furst, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial the court instructed the jury to return a verdict for plaintiff subject to the question of law reserved whether there was any evidence upon which plaintiff was entitled to recover. Verdict for plaintiff. The court entered judgment for defendant non obstante veredicto, on the ground that no order of relief had been…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Gbeen,
The plaintiff was constituted by an act passed March 27,' *1781873, P. L. 54, and .its powers and authority were defined by extending to it the sections eight to fifteen, inclusive, of the act of April 14, 1845, P. L. 440, entitled an act to establish an asylum for the insane poor of this commonwealth to be called the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital and Union Asylum for the Insane; and also the sections from one to five inclusive of a supplement to said act, passed the eighth day of April, 1861, P. L. 248.
By the twelfth section of the first of these acts it was…
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