Sloan v. Webster County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buena Vista District Court. This is an action by a physician to recover for medical attendance upon certain paupers in Pleasant Yalley township, Webster county. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrook, J.
— I. In January, 1881, there was a strike of the coal miners in Pleasant Valley township, and on the twentieth day of the month a large, number of colored men, with their families, arrived at the mines to take the place of the strikers. These colored people were brought from the state of Tennessee by the proprietors of the mines. They moved into houses owned by said proprietors, from which houses the striking miners had been expelled. The plaintiff *739is a physician residing at or near the mines. On the thirtieth day of January, 1881, he commenced giving medical treatment and furnishing…
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