Overseers of the Poor of Upper Dublin v. Overseers of the Poor of Germantown

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Overseers of the Poor of Upper Dublin v. Overseers of the Poor of Germantown, 1 Yeates 250 (Pa. 1793)

Overseers of the Poor of Upper Dublin v. Overseers of the Poor of Germantown

Opinion of the Court

By the court.

No man should be a judge in his own cause. The administration of justice should not even be suspected. The words of the law, β€œany two justices,” must mean legal justices. It has been deemed necessary by the legislature, in the incorporation of boroughs, as Lancaster, York, Reading, &c. to add similar words to the stat. of 16 Geo. 2, c. 18; but they have confined it to the boroughs incorporated, and have not extended it to the counties at large. The uniform practice for these forty years past, has been to quash such orders, and the same must be done in the present instance.

Reference

Full Case Name
Overseers of the Poor of the township of Upper Dublin against Overseers of the Poor of the township of Germantown
Status
Published