Schmidt v. County of Stearns
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Stearns county to recover the value of medical services rendered and medicines furnished. The action was tried before Crosby, J., (acting for the judge of the seventh district,) and a jury, and upon the close of the evidence the court directed a verdict for defendant. Plaintiff appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
To meet the exigencies growing out of the presence of small-pox, in epidemic form, in several of the towns of Stc aras county, causing wide-spread alarm, the legislature, at its extra session in 1881, passed an act, approved November 4th, entitled “An act to authorize the county commissioners of Stearns county to take measures to prevent the spreading of small-pox.” Sp. Laws 1881, (Ex. Sess.) c. 104. Under its provisions the board of county com*113missioners were authorized to adopt such regulations concerning vac-eination, quarantine, and other preventive means as they might deem proper; and for…
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