Overseers of Milton v. Overseers of Williamsport
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Quarter Sessions of Lycoming. July 19. Louisa Finly had acquired a settlement by hiring in Milton. She then married Deems, who had acquired a settlement in Chester county. After her marriage she became somewhat deranged in mind, and was found in Milton requiring assistance. The overseers of Milton wrote to the overseers of •Williamsport, alleging she was chargeable on that township.
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Appeal from the Quarter Sessions of Lycoming. July 19. Louisa Finly had acquired a settlement by hiring in Milton. She then married Deems, who had acquired a settlement in Chester county. After her marriage she became somewhat deranged in mind, and was found in Milton requiring assistance. The overseers of Milton wrote to the overseers of •Williamsport, alleging she was chargeable on that township. No answer was received — but the pauper was permitted to wander to Berlin, and thence to Williamsport, where she was found in a destitute condition, and removed under an order to Milton. From this…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnside, J.
The evidence is satisfactory that Louisa had gained a settlement in Milton, by hiring before her marriage with Andrew Deems, 5 Barr, 283, 284. If the evidence of her husband is believed, he had a settlement in Chester county, which by the marriage became her settlement; as the 10th section of the act of 1835, Dunlop, 632, provides “ that every married woman shall be deemed during coverture, and after her husband’s death, to be settled in the place where he was last settled.” If the overseers had been disposed to regard the law, it could have been easily ascertained whether Deems’s statement…
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