Nay v. Town of Underhill

The action is general assumpsit, to recover for services rendered and expense incurred by the plaintiff while acting as health officer for the defendant town under an appointment from the state board of health. At the time the plaintiff was appointed, and when he rendered the services and incurred the expense sought to be recovered, he was not a resident of the defendant town, but of an adjoining town. The services were not rendered nor the expense incurred at the defendant’s request, and no promise on the part of the defendant, or any of its officers, to pay for the services is shown. The…