Huston Tp. Poor D. v. Benezette Tp. Poor D.

Citations

• 135 Pa. 393
• 19 A. 1060
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1193

Syllabus

<p>1. The rule of practice, under the act of March 16, 1868, P. L. 46, regulating appeals from orders for the removal of paupers, is that all disputed questions of fact or law, to be presented for review to the Supreme Court, must be raised upon the record upon points submitted at the hearing and argument in the Court of Quarter Sessions.</p> <p>2. A general exception to the opinion and decree finding the facts and aj>plying the law thereto, is not sufficient to enable the Supreme Court, to review the case on its merits ; but, where the omission to submit a point is supplied by the specific statement of the disputed question in the body of an exception, filed with the opinion, the record is then sufficient to present that question.</p> <p>3. A township-road tax is a public tax within the meaning of § 9, act of June 13. 1836, P. L. 542, providing that a settlement may be gained in any poor district by any person who shall come to inhabit in the same, and “ shall be charged with and pay his proportion of any public taxes or levies for two years successively.”</p>