Case ID: iowa_123/html/0005-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bishop, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. C. Walker, Appellant, v. Boone County, Iowa, Appellee.
    Contagious Disease: liability of county fob cabe of patients: statutes. Where a physician seeks to enforce against a county a charge for attending persons afflicted with a contagious disease, under an employment by a city board of health, failure to show that such persons, or those liable for their support, are unable to pay expenses, will defeat recovery. Code, sections 2570 and 2571 construed.
    
      Appeal from Boone District Court.- — IIon. W. S. Kenyon, Judge.
    Monday, January 18, 1904.
    Action by plaintiff, a physician, to recover for'professional services rendered, as alleged, at the instance and request of the board of health of the city of Boone, situate in the defendant county. The services consisted of taking charge of a smallpox hospital, or pest house, in said city, and in giving professional care and treatment to the inmates thereof. At the close of the evidence for plaintiff the court, on motion, directed a verdict in favor of defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
    
    Affirmed.
    
      Ganoe & Hollingsworth for appellant.
    
      C. I. Bparhs and B. B. Dyer for appellee.
   Bishop, J.