Overseers of Versailles v. Overseers of Mifflin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
CERTIORARI to the quarter sessions of Allegheny county. John Long who had no legal settlement in the state, was disabled by a hurt while engaged as a labourer in Mifflin township, from whence he was carried- into Versailles township; the overseers of the poor of which, in pursuance of an order of two justices of the peace maintained him.
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CERTIORARI to the quarter sessions of Allegheny county. John Long who had no legal settlement in the state, was disabled by a hurt while engaged as a labourer in Mifflin township, from whence he was carried- into Versailles township; the overseers of the poor of which, in pursuance of an order of two justices of the peace maintained him. The overseers of Versailles subsequently petitioned the court of quarter sessions, who made a decree, that the overseers of Mifflin should pay the overseers of Versailles such sum as the latter had already expended in maintaining the pauper, and a weekly…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The act of June 13, 1836, provides in the fifth section, for the case of a poor person needing relief in a place where he has no settlement; and directs, that until he can be removed to, the place of his settlement, such relief shall be given. The twenty-third section contemplates the case of a person coming out of one district of the state into another, and falling- sick or dying at such *362place before gaining a settlement therein, so that he could not be removed. It requires the overseers of such place to give notice to those of the…
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