People ex rel. Lester v. Eno
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the ;5th day of December, 1902, directed to Joseph H Eno and others, constituting the town board of the town of Hamburg, Erie county, Hew York, requiring them to certify and return to" the office of the clerk of the county of Erie all. and singular their proceedings had in refusing to pay the relator’s claim for professional services as a physician. ■
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, P. J.:
The relator, who, on the 29th day of April, 1902, was a practicing physician in the-town of Hamburg, in the county of Erie, discovered the fact that two of his patients had developed the disease of smallpox,- which fact he on-the day above named reported to Dr. Bentley S. Bourne, the health physician of the town.
A meeting of the board of health was thereupon called for the day following, at which meeting the health physician reported the existence of these cases of smallpox; expressed' his opinion as to-the source of communication, and recommended that a strong quarantine…
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