Directors of The Poor v. Overseers of Conemaugh Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Indiana county. This was a proceeding before two justices of the peace, for the removal of Thomas Bell, a pauper, from Conemaugh township to the poor-house of Westmoreland county.
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Certiorari to the Quarter Sessions of Indiana county. This was a proceeding before two justices of the peace, for the removal of Thomas Bell, a pauper, from Conemaugh township to the poor-house of Westmoreland county. On the 11th September 1857, on the application of the Overseers of the Poor of Conemaugh township, an order was made by two justices of the peace for the removal of Thomas Bell to the poor-house of Westmoreland county; and on the 15th, the pauper was removed, and a copy ofthe order delivered to the steward of the poor-house, who refused to receive him. The term of the Court of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Strong, J.
This certiorari brings up only the record of the proceedings in the court below of June Sessions 1858, in which-the court confirmed an order of removal of Thomas Bell, a pauper, *232made by two justices of the peace of Indiana county. It is now settled, that the writ does not remove the evidence received by the justices, or by the court below. That is no part of the record. We, are, therefore, confined to a review of the regularity and legality of the proceedings : Overseers of South Huntingdon v. The Overseers of East Huntingdon, 7 Watts 529;…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Overseers of South Huntingdon v. Overseers of East HuntingdonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
3Cited by1 opinion
- Poor District v. Poor DistrictSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1897