Overseers of the Poor v. Somerset County Poor District

Citations

• 168 Pa. 286
• 31 A. 1086
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 791

Syllabus

<p>Poor laws — Order of removal — Settlement.</p> <p>Under the act of June 13, 1836, clause Y. sec. 9, P. L. 643, an order of removal of an “unmarried person, not having a child,” will be quashed, where it appears that although the pauper had acquired a settlement in the district mentioned in the order, he had subsequently acquired a settlement, by being bound and hired as a servant during one whole year, in another district.</p> <p>Under the act of June 13, 1836, clause Y. sec. 9, P. L. 643, describing the manner in which “ any unmarried person, not having a child,” may gain a settlement in any district, both residence and service in the same poor district is not necessary to acquire a settlement.</p> <p>From February, 1888, until September, 1889, M. was hired by the Bellefonte Furnace Company, and_ during that period continued in the service of that company in Spring township; during which time he boarded and lodged with his mother in the borough of Bellefonte, and paid her for his boarding and lodging. Held, that he gained a settlement in Spring township.</p>