Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 7, 1877 (Directors of Poor v. Shingle)

Mr. Justice Woodward

delivered the opinion of the court,

Philip Shingle, the plaintiff below, was constable of Union township in the year 1874. On the 7th of April in that year, an order was issued ‘to him by two justices of the peace to convey Jacob Carver, of Amity township, a pauper, to the Berks County Poor House.