Ebert v. Langlade County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Langlade county: JohN QoodlaND, Circuit Judge. Equitable action by a taxpayer, suing in behalf of himself and all other persons similarly situated, to enjoin defendant county from issuing a county order on an audited bill for medical services rendered a poor person, on the ground that the claimant was not entitled to recover his claim of the county.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Langlade county: JohN QoodlaND, Circuit Judge. Equitable action by a taxpayer, suing in behalf of himself and all other persons similarly situated, to enjoin defendant county from issuing a county order on an audited bill for medical services rendered a poor person, on the ground that the claimant was not entitled to recover his claim of the county. The cause was tried by the court and facts were found as follows: Louis Leduchi, a poor person without means of procuring medical treatment, and having no legal settlement in Langlade County, became…
1Opinion of the Court
ivr a R.rtt a t.t., J.
There can be no doubt but that the town of Yilas was primarily liable for the relief of Leduchi under sec. 1512, Stats. 1898, and that the county was liable to reimburse the town upon its complying with the conditions precedent named in such section, which reads as follows; “’When any person not having a legal settlement therein *572shall be taken sick, lame or otherwise disabled in any town, city or village or for any other canse shall be in need of relief as a poor person and shall not have money or property to pay his board, maintenance, attendance and medical aid, the .…
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