Fedorowicz v. Brobst

Citations

• 62 Pa. Super. 458
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 450

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Title of statute — Nonsupport of wives — Increased burden on counties — Poor law — Act of June IB, 1918, P. L. SOB.</p> <p>The second section of the Act of June 12, 1913, P. L. 502, entitled “An act to increase the powers of courts in summary proceeding for the desertion or nonsupport of wives, children or aged parents,” etc., is unconstitutional inasmuch as the title fails to show that the wages to be paid to delinquents who desert their families are arbitrarily fixed by the act and that the county is ultimately liable to pay them to wives, children or aged parents of the delinquents if the penal institutions or reformatories are not self-sustaining.</p>