Westmoreland County Poor District's Appeal

Citations

• 77 Pa. Super. 402
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 283

Syllabus

<p>Residence — Settlement—Removal — Absence — Change of residence.</p> <p>Absence for more than three years from the district, where a family had an established residence, does not of itself change the place of legal settlement. Temporary residence elsewhere, with no intention of remaining away, does not remove the residence of a family from tbe district where they bad an established Settlement. Temporary residence and employment of the husband and father in another state does not constitute a removal of his family from the district where they formerly resided. -</p> <p>Poor law — Residence—Liability of district — Removal—Expense.</p> <p>The poor district where a family had an established residence is liable for the expense of their removal from another district, where they have become a charge upon the community, even though they have been absent from their home district more than three years.</p> <p>Poor law — Petition for removal — Costs of the proceeding — Expense of removing — Counsel fees — Act of April 6, 1905, P. L. 112.</p> <p>The Act of April 6, 1905, P. L. 112, expressly limits the recovery by a poor district, petitioning for removal of a pauper, to its expense of relief and removing, and the costs of the proceeding. Counsel fees are not a part of either “expense of removing” or “costs of the proceeding” and cannot be allowed.</p>