Dallas Township Poor District v. Eaton Township Poor District
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 192, July T., 1893, by plaintiff, from order of Q. S. Wyoming Co., discharging rule to show cause why defendant should not pay money expended for maintenance and burial of Lucy Taylor, a pauper. Rule to show cause why defendant poor district should not pay plaintiff district money expended for maintenance and burial of pauper. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court JError assigned was discharge of rule.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
Lucy Taylor was the minor daughter of Harry Taylor, and became a charge upon Dallas Poor District by virtue of an order for relief properly issued, on the twelfth day of March, 1892. She died during the month of October following. The overseers of Dallas are now seeking to charge the district of Eaton with the expenses of her sickness and burial, on the allegation that her father was legally settled in that township. Whether this is the fact is the question on which this appeal depends, for if he had a settlement in Eaton his minor daughter was properly…
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