County of DeWitt v. Wright

Citations

• 91 Ill. 529

Syllabus

<p>1. Paupers—liability of county for services rendered. Under the present statute relating to paupers the overseer of the poor of a town has no power to render temporary relief to an indigent or poor person not required to be supported wholly by the county, contrary to the regulations and limitations prescribed by the county board, but he is bound by such regulations.</p> <p>2. A rule and regulation of a county board that in case of need of medical aid by a poor person not required to be wholly supported by the county, the county physician should be resorted to, is a reasonable one, and if disregarded, and another physician renders medical services in defiance of the rule, though by direction of an overseer of the poor, he can not' recover for such services of the county.</p> <p>3. Former decisions. Since the cases of The Board of Supervisors, etc. v. Plaut, 42 Ill. 324, and Supervisors of LaSalle Qouniy v. Reynolds, 49 id. 186, the statute has been materially modified in respect of the questions above mentioned.</p>