Tweedy v. Fremont County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Fremont District Court. — Hon. A. B. ThorNEiiL, Judge. Action at law to recover for services rendered, and supplies furnished a pauper. A demurrer to one count of the petition was overruled. The defendant refused to plead further, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
1 2 The demurrer is to the first count of the petition. The material facts which are set out in that count, and admitted by the demurrer, are substantially as follows: The plaintiff is a physician, engaged in the general practice of medicine in Tabor, Fremont county, Iowa, and the defendant is unorganized county of this state. In October, 1894, there was in existence a duly organized board of health in the incorporated town of. Tabor, which employed the plaintiff to attend, in his professional capacity, a patient named Holmes, for the sum of six dollars per visit, and to furnish him with…
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