Borreson v. Department of Public Welfare

The defendant, the Department of Public Welfare of the State of Illinois, prosecutes this appeal from an order of the circuit court of Macon county finding that the plaintiff, John Borreson, was entitled to an award under "An act in relation to the care and assistance of aged persons and providing for their burial," approved June 29, 1935, as amended, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap. 23, par. 410, p. 316,) and commanding the director of the department and the superintendent of its Old Age Assistance Division to pay plaintiff $24 per month, on the first day of each month, commencing August 1, 1937.