Wertz v. Blair County

Citations

• 66 Pa. 18
• 1870 Pa. LEXIS 267

Syllabus

<p>1. The relations of a pauper mentioned in the 28th sect, of Act of June 13th 1836, are compellable under the Act of April 15th 1857, to maintain him with or without an order of relief having been obtained.</p> <p>2. The jurisdiction to compel the payment is in the Quarter Sessions.</p> <p>3. It is the duty of the officers of the poor to provide for insane poor to be repaid by the specified relations.</p> <p>4. A poor district having paid the expenses of maintaining a pauper in the state lunatic asylum, may recover the amount from the specified relations ; the proceeding to recover must be in the Quarter Sessions.</p> <p>5. The expenses of insane paupers committed to the State Lunatic Asylum are payable by the district to which the paupers are chargeable.</p>