Dodge County v. Diers

Pound, C.

A bridge-gang, working on a railroad in the defendant county, was lodging in a house belonging to the plaintiff. Smallpox broke out among them, and one of the members of the county board, acting, apparently, under section 5, article 7, chapter 55, Compiled Statutes (Annotated Stattutes, 9487), quarantined a number of them in plaintiff’s building. A guard was put over them with instructions to keep them confined and to prevent others from coming in contact with them. While they were so quarantined, their meals were provided by the plaintiff, through and at the instance of the guard.…