Overseers of Poor of Susquehanna Township Poor District v. Overseers of Poor of Monroe Township Poor District

Citations

• 4 Pa. Super. 589
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 169

Syllabus

<p>Poor law — Appeal—Order of removal.</p> <p>Where a decree for removal of paupers is in proper form and warranted by the law and the evidence, the appellate court will not consider the reformation of the decree upon grounds which could and should have been established, if capable of establishment, in the court below. The appellate court cannot be asked formally to announce through its decree that the litigation may be deemed only fairly begun at the point where a lawsuit usually ends.</p> <p>Poor law — Removal of pauper — Jurisdiction of removing justices.</p> <p>Two justices have no power to grant an order of removal from their own township, and when such inoperative order is quashed the two districts are left where they began.</p>