Questão jurídica principal
Whether needy persons are entitled to more than bare subsistence under § 15 of the Poor Relief Act.
Decisão extraída
Yes. Assistance must cover a social subsistence minimum in reasonable relation to the local standard of living.
Fundamentação extraída
The court upheld the cantonal practice that poor relief is not limited to the strictly indispensable but to a social minimum reflecting the local population's standard of life.