Cowanshannock Poor District v. Armstrong County

Citations

• 31 Pa. Super. 386
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 224

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Construction—Judicial inquiry.</p> <p>Where the words of a statute are plainly expressive of an intent, not rendered dubious by the context, the question whether the same reasons that impelled the legislature to enact the law would justify a still broader provision is not the subject of judicial inquiry.</p> <p>Poor laws — Burial of pauper — County—Notice to commissioners — Act of March 6, 1903, P. L. 18.</p> <p>A poor district cannot recover from a county under the Act of March 6, 1903, P. L. 18, the expenses of burying a pauper who had no settlement in the state, if it appears that such expenses were paid before any notice was given to the county commissioners.</p>