Bryson v. Home for Disabled & Indigent Soldiers, Sailors & Mariners

Citations

• 168 Pa. 352
• 31 A. 1008
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 803

Syllabus

<p>Pensions — Soldier's Home — Voluntary payment or maintenance.</p> <p>In an action by an inmate of a Soldiers’ Home against the Home, to-recover money which he alleged he had been compelled to pay to the Home out of his pension, an affidavit of defense is sufficient which avers-that a rule of the Home required the inmates to turn over eighty per cent of their pension money to the treasurer of the Home; that upon the admission of the plaintiff to the Home he signed an agreement binding himself to comply with the rules of the Home of which he knew this to be one; that the payments for which he sued were made by him voluntarily in accordance with the contract executed by him on his admission.</p> <p>Not decided whether this rule of the Home is authorized or not.</p>