Brushvalley Township Poor Directors v. Allegheny County Poor Directors

Citations

• 25 Pa. Super. 595
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 120

Syllabus

<p>Poor law — Order for relief — Delegation of power — Order of removal — Juris- ■ diction.</p> <p>An order for relief which shows on its face that the two justices which issued it did not adjudicate the circumstances of the alleged paupers, but that they directed the overseers to furnish the relief if they found the alleged pauper’s “circumstances tobe as represented,” is invalid and creates no liability on the township in which the alleged paupers reside, nor upon the district to which they are subsequently removed. The provisions of the statute must be strictly complied with, and the justices have no power to delegate their judgment to the overseers of the poor.</p> <p>The objection to such an order may be taken at any time, since the want of jurisdiction appears upon the face of the record.</p>