Sweet Clinic, Inc. v. Lewis County

(dissenting) — I am unable to concur in the foregoing opinion. The statutes which the majority cite were enacted in territorial days; in fact, they have been upon the statute books in substantially their present form since the first session of the territorial legislature. Early they received a construction by the territorial court. In King County v. Collins, 1 Wash. Terr. 469, the action was by Collins against the county to recover for board and lodging furnished certain persons. One of the grounds of the action was that the persons were indigent and entitled to support from the county. The…