County of Saguache v. Tough

The plaintiff brought this action to recover from Saguache county for the value of board, medicine, care and attention which he furnished to a pauper whom, it is claimed, the county, under our statute, was obliged to support. He got judgment and defendant appealed.

Plaintiff’s counsel devotes much argument to establish the proposition that under our pertinent statutes a county may he liable, upon an implied contract, to pay for such aid. Rio Grande County v. Phye, 27 Colo. 107, is cited. The matter there decided was that, under the facts of that case, the county was not holden, either upon an…