Board of Supervisors v. Gilbert & Bonner
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Lee county. IIon. Lock E. Houston, Judge. Gilbert & Bonner, partners in the practice of medicine, made application to the board of supervisors of Lee county for an allowance of. $55, as compensation for services in amputating the leg of a pauper.
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From the circuit court of Lee county. IIon. Lock E. Houston, Judge. Gilbert & Bonner, partners in the practice of medicine, made application to the board of supervisors of Lee county for an allowance of. $55, as compensation for services in amputating the leg of a pauper. The allowance was refused, and an appeal was taken to the circuit court, where the case was tried by the court without a jury, resulting in a judgmerit in favor of plaintiffs for the amount claimed, from which the county appeals. The facts out of which the claim arose are these : In January, 1892, an old negro living in the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The record presents one of the rare cases in which a surgeon’s bill for services to a pauper is a proper charge against a county. It clearly appears that no steps had been taken by any county officer, or other person, to have the poor old man declared a pauper and removed to the poor-house, in the manner prescribed by law, or in any other manner. His pitiable condition rendered prompt action on the part of the surgeons necessary, and the dangerous state of the limb anv putated made it impossible to remove him at the time to the county poor-house, regard being had to his life. Humanity…
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