Burrell Township v. Pittsburg Guardians of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
' October 25th 1869. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Indiana county: No. 160, to October and November Term 1868. In the court below this was an appeal by the Guardians of the Poor of Pittsburg, from an order made July 27th 1867, by two justices of the peace of the county of Indiana, for the removal of Aaron P. Weir, a pauper from the township of Burrell, in that county, to the Ninth Ward in the city…
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' October 25th 1869. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Indiana county: No. 160, to October and November Term 1868. In the court below this was an appeal by the Guardians of the Poor of Pittsburg, from an order made July 27th 1867, by two justices of the peace of the county of Indiana, for the removal of Aaron P. Weir, a pauper from the township of Burrell, in that county, to the Ninth Ward in the city of Pittsburg, which the justices adjudged was the pauper’s legal settlement. Commissioners were appointed to take…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Thompson, C. J.
There was no dispute below about the fact, that the father of the pauper Weir, had at the time of his death, which occurred in the minority of the latter, a legal settlement in Burrell township. The dispute was whether the mother had gained such a settlement, in the Ninth Ward of the city of Pitts-burg, as .fixed it as the settlement of hér son. The learned judge ruled this in the negative, and hence this writ of error.
The undisputed facts seem to be, that Mrs. Weir, the mother of the pauper, removed to the city of Pittsburg in 1869,…
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