Board of County Commissioners v. Phye

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

This action was begun by plaintiff, the defendant in error, before a justice of the peace of Rio Grande county against the board of county commissioners of that county to recover for nursing a pauper. The judgment being in favor of the board, plaintiff appealed to the county court, and the action was there tried, resulting in a judgment for him, upon an agreed statement of facts from which, aside from formal matters, it appears that one Crowley was sick and destitute and became a county charge, and that plaintiff attended him as a nurse for twenty-two days…