Directors of the Poor v. Overseers of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ekrob, to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Perry county: Of July Term, -1885, No. 43. This was a petition of the Overseers of the Poor of Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, praying the Court of Quarter Sessions of Perry county to grant a rule on the Directors of the Poor of Perry county to show cause why the said directors should not be directed to pay the sum of $859, as the costs of maintaining and removing one Henry Hoover, a pauper, whose settlement had been…
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Ekrob, to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Perry county: Of July Term, -1885, No. 43. This was a petition of the Overseers of the Poor of Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, praying the Court of Quarter Sessions of Perry county to grant a rule on the Directors of the Poor of Perry county to show cause why the said directors should not be directed to pay the sum of $859, as the costs of maintaining and removing one Henry Hoover, a pauper, whose settlement had been determined to be in Perry county. The respondents filed an answer, admitting the charge but alleging that the amount…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
It is true that the Act of April 15th, 1867, P. L., 84, provides that the district accepting a poor person, without appeal, after an order of removal, shall be liable to the district removing the pauper for costs and charges, in the same manner and to the same extent that they would have been had the ease been determined against tbe accepting district upon an appeal from the order of removal. But conceding this, the order of removal and tlie order to pay costs and charges are distinct matters, and are not necessarily parts of the same, or of one, proceeding. The Act of 1867 itself recognizes…
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- Poor District v. Poor DistrictSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- Luzerne County Poor District v. Jenkins Township Poor DirectorsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1903