Lander County v. Humboldt County
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Elko county. G. F. Talbot, District Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. Respondent is clearly liable to appellant, under the terms of the statute, for the relief furnished by appellant to the indigent. II. The court erred in finding that the indigent was not a pauper.
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Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Elko county. G. F. Talbot, District Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. I. Respondent is clearly liable to appellant, under the terms of the statute, for the relief furnished by appellant to the indigent. II. The court erred in finding that the indigent was not a pauper. The evidence all showed that he was unable to earn a livelihood on account of bodily infirmity, that he had no relatives to support him, that he was without means aud required relief. Under such evidence he was clearly a pauper or indigent. (Gen. Stat. Sec. 1982;…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bigelow, J.:
Action by the plaintiff county to recover from the defendant county expenses claimed to have been incurred in the care and treatment of a pauper resident of the latter county.
In Sees. 1981-1991, Gen. Stat., the legislature seems to have had in mind two classes of indigent persons who might be entitled to county aid — First, paupers; in which class it was apparently the intention to include poor persons who are unable to earn a livelihood in consequence of bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy, or other cause, and whose disability is likely to be more or Jess permanent;…
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