Morgan County v. Seaton

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of Dr. Grafton W. Seaton against Morgan county. The judgment is predicated upon a claim for professional services rendered in the treatment of a poor person, residing in Gregg township, in the above county.

It appears from the complaint that a poor person, in the township above named, became seriously ill, and was in urgent need of medicines and medical treatment, which she had no means to procure. The county commissioners had employed a competent physician to attend upon the poor of the township, but it is averred that the physician so employed, when…