Highland Township Poor District v. Jefferson County Poor District

Citations

• 25 Pa. Super. 601
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 121

Syllabus

<p>Poor law — Settlement—Payment of taxes.</p> <p>A person inhabiting a poor district who has paid his taxes for seven years . successively, has gained a settlement in such district and it is immaterial whether the taxes have been regularly assessed or not. The proof of the assessment of taxes is admissible as a step towards showing the payment of same, but it is of no value unless followed by proof of payment.</p> <p>Poor law — Settlement of father — Minot—Emancipation.</p> <p>A minor does not lose the derivative settlement which he has through his father, merely because the father premits the minor to reside in another county, where *it appears that the father’s home was always open to the child,- and there was no emancipation of the minor from the control of the father.</p>