Shrewsbury Township Poor District v. Penn Township Poor District

Citations

• 33 Pa. Super. 378
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 309

Syllabus

<p>Poor laws — Appeals■—Points of evidence and law — Assignments of error — Exceptions—Decree.</p> <p>In proceedings under the poor laws for an order of removal, a point which requests the court to find that a pauper has a settlement in a particular district, covers the entire case and is a mixed question of law and fact, and therefore not such a specific point of law and fact as is contemplated by the Act of March 16, 1868, P. L. 46.</p> <p>In such proceedings a general exception to the opinion of the court below is not an exception to any point of evidence or of law, within the meaning of the act.</p> <p>Poor law — Settlement—Lease—Evidence.</p> <p>Where a woman takes in good faith a lease of a dwelling and pays the whole year’s rent in advance, and continues to reside in the dwelling for eighteen months, she acquires a settlement under the poor laws, and such settlement is not defeated by the fact that the whole rent was immediately returned by the landlord for future board, which board was furnished him.</p>