Mansfield v. Sac County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Sae District Court. Tiie plaintiff is a physician, and seeks to recover in this action for his services as such, and for medicines furnished a poor person under the authority of the township trustees. Judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Servers, Ch. J.
The trial judge certified there was a question of law upon which it was desirable to have the opinion of the Supreme Court. Such question is as follows; “When the board of supervisors of a county in which there is no poor house, employs a convenient and competent physician to furnish to all the poor persons of the county all medicines and medical aid that such poor persons may require, while such physician is so employed, and ready and able to furnish such medicines and medical aid, may the trustees of the township in which the physician resides disregard such, employment made…
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