Rock County v. Holt County

Epperson, C.

Plaintiff herein filed its claim before the hoard of supervisors of the defendant county for expenses in caring for an alleged pauper, who became such in plaintiff county, but who was a resident of defendant county. The claim was rejected, and an appeal taken to the district court. In answer to the petition therein filed, the defendant admitted the facts set forth in the petition, and alleged as a defense that since 1887 defendant county has been under township organization, that it has never established, and at the time in controversy did not maintain, a poorhouse, and that it…