County of Allegheny v. Western Pennsylvania Hospital
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This Avas an action o’f assumpsit by The Western Pennsylvania Hospital against The Commissioners of Allegheny County, in •which the following case was stated for the opinion of the court: The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, the plaintiff above named, claims -to recover from the county of Allegheny, the said defendants, the sum of $480.58, with interest from the first day of July 1861, for the boarding, medical attendance,…
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This Avas an action o’f assumpsit by The Western Pennsylvania Hospital against The Commissioners of Allegheny County, in •which the following case was stated for the opinion of the court: The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, the plaintiff above named, claims -to recover from the county of Allegheny, the said defendants, the sum of $480.58, with interest from the first day of July 1861, for the boarding, medical attendance, maintenance, and clothing of seven indigent insane persons, at their hospital in the city of Pittsburgh, namely: John…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, C. J.
— This is a suit by the Western Pennsylvania Hospital to recover from the county of Allegheny an agreed sum for the support of certain insane persons sent to the hospital, from the county prison of Allegheny county, by direction of the county commissioners, with their request to the keeper of the hospital that he would take the prisoners into custody, as they had no "proper place to confine them without abusing and keeping them chained, and the commissioners added, “ You. will charge said county your usual price.” They were accepted and…