39 Kan. 432 | Kan. | 1888
The opinion of the court was delivered by
For the purposes of this case we shall assume that all the matters and things set forth in the plaintiff's petition filed in the court below are true, although it can scarcely be conceived that a county jail in any county of this state would be permitted to be and remain in the condition in which the county jail in the present instance is alleged to be. The question then arises: Is a county liable for negligently permitting its jail to become and remain in such a bad and unwholesome condition that its inmates must necessarily become sick and diseased by remaining therein ? The plaintiff claims that a county is liable in such a case, and cites the following cases as authority therefor: Bigelow v. Town of Randolph, 14 Gray, 541; Aldrich v. Tripp, 11 R. I. 141; Moulton
In our opinion the decision of the court below was correct, and it will be affirmed.