Board of Commissioners v. Wertz

The proceedings complained of in this ease were based upon an account filed against the county of Dubois by Toliver Wertz for making a pod-inortem examination of the body of John E. Gardner, a person who had come to his death by violence, at the request of a justice of the peace, who was at the time acting, or assuming to act,, as coroner of the county.

*269The board of commissioners rejected the claim. "Wertz appealed to the circuit court, .where a demurrer was first overruled to the complaint, and where there was a special finding of the facts as disclosed by the evidence. Upon the facts as thus…