Overseers of Porter Township v. Overseers of Jersey Shore
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Lycoming county: Of January Term 1876, No. 99. Certified from Eastern District. This was an application in the court below, by the Commonwealth ex rel.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Lycoming county: Of January Term 1876, No. 99. Certified from Eastern District. This was an application in the court below, by the Commonwealth ex rel. James' G. Ferguson and Frederick Staver, Overseers of the Poor fof Porter township, in Lycoming county, to obtain a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue to Thomas Calvert, Jr., and Mark Keyser, Overseers of the Poor of the Borough of Jersey Shore, commanding them to receive and provide for a pauper, in pursuance of an order of removal from two justices, under the provisions of the Act of 18th…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
The Court of Common Pleas has power to issue writs of mandamus “to all officers and magistrates, elected or appointed, in,or for the respective county, or in or for any township, district or place within such county, and to all corporations being or having their chief place of business within such county:” Act 14th June 1836, sect. 18. Overseers of the poor are officers elected in the several townships, as districts for the poor, and are therefore subjects of this high power, unless special jurisdiction has been conferred upon the Court of Quarter Sessions in respect to the subject-matter, or…
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