Lincoln Township v. Kearney County

Good, C.

In October, 1904, Earl Watkins became ill with typhoid fever in Lincoln township, Kearney county, Nebraska. For about five months previous thereto he had worked as a farm hand and in other capacities in different parts of Kearney county. He was a minor about 18 years of *300age, and had neither parents nor relatives in Nebraska so far as known. At the time he became ill he had no property or means of support. L. R. Brown, justice of the peace, ex officio overseer of the poor and chairman of the town' board of Lincoln township, upon being notified of Watkins’ illness and his need of care…