Lewistown v. Granville
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tlie Quarter Sessions of Mifflin. May 24. Nancy Coffman,-a single woman without a child, having become a charge on the borough of Lewistown, was removed, under an order of two justices to Granville township.
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Appeal from tlie Quarter Sessions of Mifflin. May 24. Nancy Coffman,-a single woman without a child, having become a charge on the borough of Lewistown, was removed, under an order of two justices to Granville township. From this order there was an appeal to the Quarter Sessions. . The evidence was, that many years ago the pauper had lived in the family of Shrimp in Granville, for upwards of fourteen months, where she did the work she was ordered to do, and received her food and clothing, but no wages; nor was there any bargain made as to the time she was to stay or what she was to receive.…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnside, J.
The fifth provision of the 9th section of the act relating to the support and employment of the poor, (Dunlop, 632,) provides that a settlement shall be gained “ by any unmarried person not having a child, who shall be lawfully bound or hired as a servant within such district, and shall continue in such service, as a servant, during one whole year.”
*284This part of our poor law is substantially the same as the English enactment, 3 W. & M. c. 11, § 7, (3 Burn’s Just. 12th ed. 344.) In England, with respect to the hiring in conformity to the nature and object of the act, the courts have been…
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