Polk v. Covington County

Citations

• 77 Miss. 803

Syllabus

<p>PooRhousb. Superintendent. Contract. Paitpers not inmates.</p> <p>A contract by a county to pay the superintendent of its poorhouse a cei’tain sum for each.pauper there cared for, does not bind the county to require all indigent persons maintained by it to become inmates of the poorhouse; nor is the county liable to the superintendent for money paid in such maintenance elsewhere, nor for a breach of contract in that it so aided the indigent.</p>