Com'rs of Rouse Estate v. Poor Directors

Citations

• 118 Pa. 1
• 12 A. 66
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 358

Syllabus

<p>1. The acts of April 18, 1864, P. L. 443, and April 4, 1866, P. L. (1867) 1412, devolved the maintenance of the poor of Warren county upon the commissioners of the Rouse estate. By the act of March 31, 1868, P. L. 535, certain officers of boroughs and townships were required to maintain the poor within their respective districts, and to provide the taxation necessary, “until such poor are committed and delivered to the Rouse hospital in said county: ” Held, that thereafter the duty of the commissioners of the Rouse estate to care for and maintain the poor of the county did not begin until they were committed and delivered to the said hospital.</p> <p>2. A writ of error to the judgment upon “a ease stated for the opinion of the court in the nature of a special verdict,” properly brings the record' before this court for review, and hence a writ of certiorari in the same ease by the same plaintiff in error is unnecessary.</p>