Central Poor District v. Directors of the Poor

Citations

• 4 Pa. Super. 16
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 75

Syllabus

<p>Poor law — Husband and wife — Wife's settlement — Desertion of wife.</p> <p>A wife’s settlement follows that of her husband’s. If, therefore, a husband moves from one poor district to ¡mother, where he acquires a legal settlement, an allegation, even if proved, that the wife who remained behind was deserted by the husband, does not suffice to give the wife a settlement in the district of her residence, being the one from which the husband had moved.</p> <p>Poor law — Settlement—Laches of poor district.</p> <p>Where a.n insane married woman becomes a public charge on a poor district and the poor district neglects for two years to make inquiry as to the husband, who was liable to provide for his insane wife, such district is guilty of laches which cannot be visited upon the district where the husband, who had died in the meantime, had acquired a settlement.</p>