Jenks Tp. Poor D. v. Sheffield Tp. Poor D.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEPENDANT PROM THE COURT OP QUARTER SESSIONS OP WARREN COUNTY. No. 350 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 17 March Term 1889, Q. S. On February 7,1889, C. M. Carringer and John Sallarle, overseers of the poor of the township of Jenks in Forest county, presented to the court below their petition averring that under the provisions of the acts of April 9,1844, P. L. 230, and March 31, 1868, P. L. 535, the commissioners of roads and highways of the township…
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APPEAL BY DEPENDANT PROM THE COURT OP QUARTER SESSIONS OP WARREN COUNTY. No. 350 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 17 March Term 1889, Q. S. On February 7,1889, C. M. Carringer and John Sallarle, overseers of the poor of the township of Jenks in Forest county, presented to the court below their petition averring that under the provisions of the acts of April 9,1844, P. L. 230, and March 31, 1868, P. L. 535, the commissioners of roads and highways of the township of Sheffield, in Warren county, were required to perform in said township the duties of overseers of the poor; that…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark:
On or about the 29th September, 1887, one Ernest Eiffert and his wife came out of the district of Sheffield, in Warren county, where they were legally settled, into the district of Jenks, in Forest county, and there became chargeable. After such relief as their condition required had been given, their legal settlement was ascertained, and this proceeding, in the nature of a mandamus, was instituted by the overseers of Jenks against the commissioners of Sheffield to recover the amount expended.
In response to the rule, the commissioners set up a defence as follows: 1…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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