Overseers of Poor v. Overseers of Poor

Citations

• 180 Pa. 582
• 37 A. 100
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 968

Syllabus

<p>Poor law — Husband and wife — Settlement—Order of removal.</p> <p>A liusband and wife having a settlement in S., removed to M., where the husband obtained temporary employment, but did not acquire a settlement, and subsequently the wife went to T., where she became ill and received relief. Held; that the overseers of T. were entitled to an order for the removal of the wife to the husband’s residence in M., but were not entitled to recover from the overseers of M. the money expended for the relief of the wife in T. Their remedy for that purpose was against S. the place of settlement.</p>