Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane v. Drane
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 40 — Action by Central Kentucky Asylum to Subject the Interest of Edgar Drane and Othebs in Certain Beal Estate to the Payment of His Board. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANTS AND PLAINTIFF APPEALS.
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Case 40 — Action by Central Kentucky Asylum to Subject the Interest of Edgar Drane and Othebs in Certain Beal Estate to the Payment of His Board. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANTS AND PLAINTIFF APPEALS. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. 1. The recitation in the inquest, that the lunatic “owns no estate of any kind” is not a judgment which precludes an inquiry or constitutes a plea in bar. 'The finding is a mere direction to the superintendent, as to wh'o he is to receive as a pauper patient, and has no bearing upon or connection with section 257, which…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op ran court by
JUDGE DUREBLE
Affirming.
In March, 1S95, an inquest was held in the -Jefferson circuit court, and Edgar Dram' was found to be a lunatic, and a judgment rendered committing him as a pauper lunatic to the Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane. In November, 1900, an action was instituted under section 257 of the Kentucky Statutes, seeking to subject his estate to the payment of his board at the rate of $200 per annum. The finding of the jury at the inquest was “that he owns no estate of any kind,” but at that date he owned, and .still owns, undivided interests in various…
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