Board of Commissioners v. Wright

Wright sued the appellants for medical services rendered to two persons “who were in, and bona fide■ residents of, Columbus township, in said county, and were a tem■porary charge as paupers on said county and township, and were not in the poor-house or jail, nor was there any physician employed by the eounty whose business it was to attend upon them, and said services were rendered at the request and under the employment of the trustee of said township,” &c.

*188There was a demurrer overruled to this complaint, and upon that ruling the first point is made.

It is not averred that there was a poor…