Home for Colored Children v. Directors of the Poor & the House of Employment

Citations

• 72 Pa. Super. 106
• 1919 Pa. Super. LEXIS 260

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Directors of the bureau — Liability for maintenance of pauper children — Incorporated home.</p> <p>There is nothing’ in Section 7, Article IX, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, prohibiting the legislature from authorizing any municipality to become a stockholder in or to lend its credit to any corporation, etc., which would prevent the directors of the poor of a county, from placing pauper children of their district in an incorporated home, or release them from liability for their maintenance. Such an action is not lending the credit of the municipality to or becoming a stockholder of such a corporation, but merely establishes a contractual relation between the home and the directors of the poor, for which the latter are responsible.</p>