Commonwealth v. Palmer
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 233, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant Elizabeth B. Palmer, from order of support of Municipal Court of Philadelphia Co., March T., 1914, No. 202, in case of Commonwealth v. Elizabeth B. Palmer and Ella O. Benners. Petition for order for support. From the record it appeared that in March, 1912, Mary I. Palmer petitioned the court of quarter sessions for an order of support against the defendants, her children’s maternal and paternal grandmothers.
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Appeal, No. 233, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant Elizabeth B. Palmer, from order of support of Municipal Court of Philadelphia Co., March T., 1914, No. 202, in case of Commonwealth v. Elizabeth B. Palmer and Ella O. Benners. Petition for order for support. From the record it appeared that in March, 1912, Mary I. Palmer petitioned the court of quarter sessions for an order of support against the defendants, her children’s maternal and paternal grandmothers. The court dismissed the petition and subsequently on a second application marked the case “continued indefinitely.” In 1914, the petitioner…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This is an appeal by Elizabeth- B. Palmer from an order of the municipal court of Philadelphia directing her and Ella 0. Benners, paternal and maternal grandmothers of Elizabeth Palmer and Irene Palmer, to pay $2.50 a week for the support of each of said minors. We have not had the benefit of any argument, oral or printed, on behalf of the commonwealth or of the petitioner. Nor have we the aid of an opinion by the municipal court. ' We are safe in saying, however, that the authority to make the order is supposed to rest on sec. 28 of the Act of June 13, 1836, P. L. 547,…
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