Board of Social Welfare v. County of Los Angeles

In this mandamus proceeding the State Board of Social Welfare seeks to compel respondents to comply with its orders to return to certain recipients of old age assistance various sums of money which respondent County of Los Angeles had demanded and secured from such recipients in repayment of assistance which the county claimed had been illegally obtained. The following three factual situations are presented:

1. Prior to December 1, 1941, one Fannie Vos received aid, pursuant to an award by the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, in the sum of $40 a month; between January 1, 1942, and…