Legal Opinion
Goodall v. Brite
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 30, 1936No. Civ. 1761PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarks, J.
The plaintiffs are citizens and taxpayers of the County of Kern. The individual defendants arc the members of the board of supervisors of the county.
Kern County maintains a hospital for the hospitalization of the sick and injured as well as for the care of the indigent poor and indigent aged of the county. The hospital is a well-equipped institution. With the tacit, if not the express, consent of the supervisors it is the practice to admit as patients persons well able to pay for hospitalization in private institutions, either themselves or through relatives legally liable for their support,…
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