St. Francis County v. Cummings
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from St. Francis Circuit Court. George Sibley, Special Judge. Cummings & McKnight, surgeons, filed a claim for $125 ■against St. Francis county for professional services, rendered at the instance of the coroner, in making a post mortem examination at an inquest. The claim being disallowed in. the county court, an appeal was taken to the circuit court.
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APPEAL from St. Francis Circuit Court. George Sibley, Special Judge. Cummings & McKnight, surgeons, filed a claim for $125 ■against St. Francis county for professional services, rendered at the instance of the coroner, in making a post mortem examination at an inquest. The claim being disallowed in. the county court, an appeal was taken to the circuit court. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of fa.cts which recited that “ the coroner of St. Francis county, with a jury, was investigating the cause of death of one Martin Mitchell; that the said Mitchell had been dead several days,…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
Only one question is presented for our consideration in this case : Is a county responsible for services rendered by a physician in making an autopsy, at the request of a coroner, in cases wherein it is necessary to ascertain the cause of death by an inquest?
Section 692 of Mansfield’s Digest says: “ If any person die in prison, or if any person be slain, or die an unnatural •death, except by the sentence of the law, or if the dead body of any person be found, and the circumstances of the death be unknown, information shall be immediately given to the coroner of the county.”
Section 693 is: “…
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