Tama County v. Kepler

This is an action at law, to recover upon a claim made by Tama County’against the estate of Philip Heak, deceased, for expenses incurred in maintaining said Heak in his lifetime at the county poorhouse.

The answer admits that the deceased was a resident of Tama County, who was committed to the state hospital at Independence, Iowa, and that- the expense of his support at that institution from the year 1891 to the year 1895 was paid by said county, and that, from the year 1895 to his death, on March 18, 1915, he was kept and maintained by the county at the county home; but denies that the…