City of Bismarck v. Burleigh County

This is an appeal from a judgment and order overruling a demurrer to the complaint. The complaint shows that in August, 1921 defendant presented to the city a claim for $1348.80, being 25 per cent of mothers’ pensions paid by the county to nineteen different mothers during the years 1919 and 1920, which claim the city paid to the county. The complaint shows that the claim was presented by the county in good faith under the belief that the city was legally liable for the same under the statute, § 2508. The statute is 'that in certain cases the township where a pauper has a legal residence…