Bradley v. Delaware County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Delaware District Court. Action upou an accouut. The plaintiffs are physicians, and as such they furnished medicine and medical attendance at the written request of the trustees of Delaware township in Delaware county. The claim as presented to the board of supervisors, amounted t $195.05. rl he board allowed thereon the sum of $114.55, and refused to allow the balance. The action is brought to recover such balance.
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Appeal from Delaware District Court. Action upou an accouut. The plaintiffs are physicians, and as such they furnished medicine and medical attendance at the written request of the trustees of Delaware township in Delaware county. The claim as presented to the board of supervisors, amounted t $195.05. rl he board allowed thereon the sum of $114.55, and refused to allow the balance. The action is brought to recover such balance. The defendant for answer averred, among other things, that the plaintiffs’ accouut was not certified to by the township trustees. The plaintiffs did not controvert the…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Ch. J.
*5531. waiver: boartl oí suPow'mce'Sofal" claims. *552The cause involving less than $100 comes *553to us upon a certificate. The question certified is as follows: “Where claims are filed before the board of supervisors a county for medical attendance upon and care for the poor, on the order of the proper township trustees, which said claims are not certified to be correct by the trustees, but which claims the board of supervisors consider without objection for want of such certificate, and allow a part and disallow a part, does such action amount to a waiver of such certificate, estopping the…
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