Board of Commissioners v. Saunders

Saunders filed bis claim as a physician, and sought an allowance, by the appellant, to be paid out of the county treasury, of $42, for services rendered to one Cochran, a temporary pauper, at the instance and request of High, a township trustee.

The appellant allowed two dollars. Saunders appealed to the Circuit Court. Appellant demurred to the complaint; but his demurrer was overruled. This ruling presents the first point. An answer was then filed. First, a denial. Second, *406that a rule had long been adopted by defendants, that they would not allow any physician for more than one visit to a…