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Scranton Poor District v. Directors of the Poor

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 19, 1884No. 430PublishedCited by 10 opinions

• Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montour county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 430. This was, in the court below, an appeal by “ The Scranton Poor District,” from an order of two Justices of said county for the removal of Rosanna Coats, wife of Jerry Coats, from the District of Danville and Mahoning to the Scranton Poor District (late the Poor District of Providence, Lackawanna county), and adjudging said district to be her last place of legal settlement.

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• Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montour county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 430. This was, in the court below, an appeal by “ The Scranton Poor District,” from an order of two Justices of said county for the removal of Rosanna Coats, wife of Jerry Coats, from the District of Danville and Mahoning to the Scranton Poor District (late the Poor District of Providence, Lackawanna county), and adjudging said district to be her last place of legal settlement. The case was heard upon depositions before Ei/weld, P. J., who filed the following opinion : In 1855 Jerry Coats and Rosanna, his…

1Opinion of the Court

The judgment of the court was filed

2Per curiam

For reasons given in the opinion of the learned Judge who tried this case in the court below, we affirm this case.

Judgment affirmed.

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Poor District v. Poor DistrictSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  2. Directors of Home for Destitute v. Fayette County AlmshouseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
  3. Canaan Township Overseers v. Covington Township OverseersSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
  4. McCurdy v. Orient InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
  5. Central Poor District v. Directors of the PoorSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1897

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