Children's Rehabilitation Center, Inc. v. County of Allegheny

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

By a multiple-count complaint in assumpsit, plaintiffs, Children’s Rehabilitation Center, Inc. and Children’s Care Center, Inc., seek money damages on a legal theory of implied contract from named counties or from the Commonwealth (Department of Public Welfare) for interim care afforded mentally retarded persons admitted to plaintiff institutions as residents of particular counties, said damages being measured by a per diem rate or fee from a particular date forward in excess of the per diem rate or fee approved by the Department of Public Welfare. Under the…