Wood v. Boone County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Story District Court. — IIon. C. Gt. Lee, Judge. Action at law to recover damages due to defendants’ failure to furnish plaintiff, who was a transient poor person, proper relief. Defendant Keigley was a member of the board of supervisors of defendant county and overseer of the poor of that county. At the close of plaintiff’s testimony, the trial court directed a verdict for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
i» Poor persons: support of transient poor: liability of There being no legal obligation at common law upon a county or any of the instrumentalities of government to furnish relief to the poor, , . . n piamtiirs action, ii he has any, must be r- v bottomed upon some statute entitling him to relief. Cooledge v. Mahaska County, 24 Iowa, 211. Ilis counsel think they find such duty in sections 2225 and 2230 of the Code, reading as follows:
A person coming from another state, and not having become a citizen of nor having a settlement in the state, applying for relief, may be sent to the state…
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