People ex rel. Bristow v. Supervisors of Macomb Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
This was an application for a peremptory mandamus, to. compel the Board of Supervisors of the County of Macomb, to allow the relator the amount of a certain claim. By the evidence submitted to the Court in support of the ¡application, it appeared that one Anna Craton, a resident of the village of Mt.
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This was an application for a peremptory mandamus, to. compel the Board of Supervisors of the County of Macomb, to allow the relator the amount of a certain claim. By the evidence submitted to the Court in support of the ¡application, it appeared that one Anna Craton, a resident of the village of Mt. Clemens, in said county, was in the month of April 1853, seized with the small pox, and removed by order of the Board of Health of said village, into the dwelling house of the relator, where he, under the employ of said Board of Health, nursed and took care of her for the period of twenty-six…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Pratt, J.
*477The first question which this application for a mandamus presents for consideration, is whether the county of Macomb is liable for the claim of the relator.
The statute provides that “ when any person from abroad, 'or residing in any town within the State, shall be infected with the small pox, or other sickness dangerous to the public health, the Board of Health shall make effectual provision, in the manner in which they shall judge best for the safety of the inhabitants, by removing such sick or infected person to a separate house, &c., and by providing nurses, and other…
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