Overseers of the Poor of Lake District v. Overseers of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Wayne county: Of January Term 1878] No. 224. Appeal by the District of Lake from an order of removal of Louisa Burleigh, a pauper, from the district of South Canaan to the district of Lake. Louisa Burleigh, the pauper, whose settlement is in dispute in this case, was the wife of Sylvester Burleigh. A decree of divorce was made May 5th 1869, by the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne county, on the ground of desertion by the wife.
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Certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Wayne county: Of January Term 1878] No. 224. Appeal by the District of Lake from an order of removal of Louisa Burleigh, a pauper, from the district of South Canaan to the district of Lake. Louisa Burleigh, the pauper, whose settlement is in dispute in this case, was the wife of Sylvester Burleigh. A decree of divorce was made May 5th 1869, by the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne county, on the ground of desertion by the wife. At the time of the desertion, in May 1866, the domicil and settlement of Sylvester Burleigh was in the territory, then and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
*22Louisa Burleigh, the p&uper whose settlement is the subject of this contention, was at one time the wife of Sylvester Burleigh. He obtained a divorce in the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne county, -on the 5th of May 1869, on the ground of desertion. Subsequently she became a pauper, and was supported for some time by the poor district of South Canaan. On the 10th of April 1877, the overseers of the poor of said district obtained an order of removal to Lake district. This order was appealed from by Lake. The court below dismissed the appeal, which ruling has been assigned for error in this…
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