County of La Salle v. Hatheway

On September 18, 1896, Reis Jacobson, an unmarried ' man, twenty-six years of age, and a resident of the town of Rutland, La Salle county, was seriously injured by accident in said town, and then needed surgical and medical aid. Jacobson did not come within the legal definition of a pauper, but did not have money or property to pay his board, nursing and medical aid. Appellee, who is a physician and surgeon, was called to Thompson’s farm, in the town of Rutland, to give the injured man such aid as might be necessary; it was deemed advisable to remove him to a hospital; and he was accordingly…