Sugar Creek Overseers v. Washington Overseers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
October 26th 1869. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Armstrong county: No. 30, to October and November Term 1869. On the 27th of March 1868 an order was issued by two justices of the peace for the removal of Olive Greek, a pauper, from the township of Washington to the township of Sugar Creek, both being in Armstrong county.
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October 26th 1869. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Armstrong county: No. 30, to October and November Term 1869. On the 27th of March 1868 an order was issued by two justices of the peace for the removal of Olive Greek, a pauper, from the township of Washington to the township of Sugar Creek, both being in Armstrong county. Notice of the order was served on the overseers of Sugar Creek on the 2d of April. On the 4th of December 1868 the overseers of Sugar Creek appealed to the Court of Quarter Sessions, two terms having…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Thompson, C. J.
The order for the removal of the pauper in this instance, by Washington township, was issued on the 27th of March, A. D. 1868, and was served on the overseers of Sugar Creek Township on the 2d of April 1868. No appeal was entered from this order by the latter until December Term of that year, notwithstanding not only one, but two terms, of the Quarter Sessions, had intervened. The court below, at the instance of the defendants in error, quashed the. appeal, and upon that decision this writ of error was issued.
That it was not in time, is…
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