Guerin v. Clarke County
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Clarke county, Back, J., entered May 29, 1915, upon granting a nonsuit, dismissing an action on an implied contract for services rendered.
1Opinion of the CourtBausman, J.
The plaintiff physician sues a county for professional services rendered in the county to one resident and eight nonresidents indigent, but judgment was properly rendered against him, for he neither had a claim to begin with nor had properly presented one.
These persons were not accepted paupers, and no county officer had requested plaintiff to treat them. Nothing can be plainer, under B.em. & Bal. Code, § 83T7 et seq. (P. C. 115 § 311), than that, however much the poor may of a sudden require a physician, a bill for such work cannot be run up against the county without an order from some one…
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