Frontier County v. Lincoln County

This- is a proceeding by Frontier county, plaintiff, to recover from Lincoln county, defendant, $194 on a claim for expenses alleged to have been incurred and paid by plaintiff in caring for Mary Skinner Ball, a pauper found in Frontier county, but having her residence in Lincoln county. The claim was presented to the county board of Lincoln county and rejected. Plaintiff appealed to the district court and there filed a petition for the amount claimed. Defendant interposed a demurrer attacking the petition on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action…