Poor District of Warsaw Township v. Poor District of Knox Township
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Jefferson county : Of October Term, 1884, No. 152. This was, in the court below, an appeal by the Poor District of Knox township from an order of a Justice of the Peace directing the removal of E. H. Vanwormer and famity, paupers, from Warsaw to Knox township, on the ground that they had a legal settlement in the latter township.
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Jefferson county : Of October Term, 1884, No. 152. This was, in the court below, an appeal by the Poor District of Knox township from an order of a Justice of the Peace directing the removal of E. H. Vanwormer and famity, paupers, from Warsaw to Knox township, on the ground that they had a legal settlement in the latter township. On the trial, before KNOX, P. J., the following facts appeared : Previous to September, 1875, Vanwormer had a settlement in Knox township; from September, 1875, to January 10th, 1882, he lived, at various times, in Limestone…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was filed October 20th, 1884.
2Per curiam
On writ of error we do not review the judgment of the court below on the merits as on an appeal: Lower Augusta v. Selinsgrove, 14 P. F. Smith 166. We are *305limited to an examination of the decision on points of law and evidence which-were excepted to. We do not look through the whole evidence to discover what facts may have been found. All the points on which the court below was requested to find present questions of law. It was not requested to find the facts on which its conclusions of law were based. It lias not done so. There is…
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