121 Ga. 310
Decided November 12, 1904
Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1904-11-12
<p>Complaint. Before Judge Russell. Jackson superior court. February term, 1904.</p> <p>Suit was brought on a physician’s bill for medical services. The testimony showed, that a family were stricken with typhoid fever; that their neighbors presented to the ordinary, who had control and supervision of the county affairs, a petition that the County accept them as'paupers; that the ordinary wrote on the petition an order accepting them as such, directed the plaintiff, a physician, to treat them at reasonable charges, and employed another person to look after them and to employ nurses, giving this person an order for goods to relieve tbe emergency; and that the ordinary paid $47 out of the county funds for nursing and like expenses in the case. The plaintiff’s account was reasonable and just, but was unpaid. Nonsuit was moved for, on the ground that the plaintiff had not proved that he had a written contract with the county. It was granted, and the plaintiff excepted.</p>
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Decided 1904-11-12
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1955
9 state decisions
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¶1A contract made with an ordinary in behalf of the county of which he is an official is not binding upon the county, unless it is in writing and entered on his minutes. Political Code, § 343; Milburn v. Glynn County, 109 Ga. 473. Judgment affirmed.
¶2cited Pol. Code, § 437; Ga. R. 37/30; 94/488.
¶3cited Pol. Code, §§341, 343, 362; Ga. R. 109/472; 112/170.