Farnsworth v. Supervisors of Kalkaska County

Application is made in each of these cases for a writ of mandamus to compel the allowance and payment by the board of supervisors of sums which have been allowed in favor of the relators by the board of health of the township of Boardman in cases of small-pox.

The claims of relators arise under certain statutory provisions, which are found in sections 1647, 1650 and 1655 of Howell’s Compilation, which are given in the margin.1

*641Farnsworth’s claim is for the use of his house, and the care and nursing therein of one Barager, who was afflicted ■with the small-pox, and died there with that disease.…