Lowe v. Conroy
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Clark county: Jamies O’Neill, Oircuit Judge. [Respondent was engaged in tbe business of conducting a meat market in tbe city of Neillsville. Appellant is a physician residing there, and was the city physician and health officer. On August 3, 1901, a steer of respondent’s herd of cattle on his farm was found sick from an ailment unknown to him, but supposed to have resulted from drinking water containing paris green.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Clark county: Jamies O’Neill, Oircuit Judge. [Respondent was engaged in tbe business of conducting a meat market in tbe city of Neillsville. Appellant is a physician residing there, and was the city physician and health officer. On August 3, 1901, a steer of respondent’s herd of cattle on his farm was found sick from an ailment unknown to him, but supposed to have resulted from drinking water containing paris green. He called Dr. Brown, a veterinary surgeon, who gave the steer an antidote for paris green poisoning, but upon further examination…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
Tbe appellant, as a health officer of the-city of Neillsville, seeks to justify tbe destruction of respondent’s property upon tbe authority vested in tbe board of health for tbe adoption of such measures to abate nuisances and remove sources of filtb and causes of sickness as-may be deemed most effectual to preserve tbe public health. By sec. 1411, Stats. 1898, it is provided that every town, village, and city board of health “may take such measures' and make such rules and regulations as they may deem most effectual for tbe preservation of tbe public health. They may.appoint ás many persons…
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