Supreme Judicial Court of Maine August 4, 1880 (Edgecomb v. City of Lewiston)

AppletoN, C. J.

The plaintiff was duly elected city physician. The duties of the office are prescribed by chapter 4, section 7, of the city ordinances, which is as follows:

"It shall be the duty of the city physician to attend, under the general direction of the overseers of the poor, upon all patients under the care of the city authorities, at the almshouse or elsewhere, to render all the