County Commissioners v. County Commissioners

Action by the board of county commissioners of Ouray county to recover from Gunnison county a certain amount expended for and on behalf of a pauper resident of the latter county. Judgment was in favor of Ouray county. The action is brought under the provisions of sections 4794, 4795, 4796 and 4797, Revised Statutes, 1908.

A liability against a county for the support of paupers originates solely in provisions of the statutes.' To sustain such a claim the case must fall within the libaility thus created and in the manner prescribed by the statute. There are none of the elements of a contract,…