Thomas v. Board of Supervisors

The following statement of fact is taken from the brief of counsel for the respondent:

“In September, 1904, the city council of the city of Mason, in Ingham county, acting as a board of health, employed Dr. Thomas, the appellee, to attend a typhoid fever patient residing in that city. The doctor rendered the services required; his first visit being on September 8, 1904, and his last on October 10th of the same year. His entire bill came to $36, and was reasonable in amount.

“Thereupon the local board of health approved and certified to a properly itemized statement of the doctor’s services, and…