Birchard v. Board of Health
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Ingham; Collingwood, J. Bill by Emma Birchard and others against the board of health of the city of Lansing and another to enjoin the maintenance of a hospital for contagious diseases. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtFellows, J.
This bill is filed to restrain the maintenance in a residential district of a pesthouse, or as it is sometimes denominated in the record, a detention hospital for the treatment of infectious diseases. The case was heard and an opinion filed in the court below directing the dismissal of the bill prior to the handing down of the opinions of this court in Barth v. Hospital Ass’n, 196 Mich. 642, and Saier v. Joy, 198 Mich. 295 (L. R. A. 1918A, 825). The decree not having been entered, a reargument of the case was had and a further opinion was filed in which it was recognized that these cases were…
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