Board of Supervisors v. Reynolds
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Edwin S. Leland, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
This was an action of assumpsit, brought to the circuit court of La Salle county, by Cornelius W. Reynolds, against the board of supervisors of that county, for $125, being his charge for medical services rendered by direction of the overseers of the poor, to William Woodbury and Orin Woodbury, who were sick with small-pox.
It was claimed, on the part of the plaintiff, that these diseased persons come within the provisions of sec. 4 of the act concerning paupers. R. S. 402, ch. 80.
The defendants pleaded the general issue, and two special pleas, which were demurred out, and on trial by the…
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