Wood v. Sprague

This is an action by heirs against the state land board to recover moneys alleged to have escheated to the state.

The state board of control intervened and set np its claim to have paid to it from the fund the reasonable unpaid cost to the state of the care and maintenance of the deceased while a ward of the Oregon state hospital and while a ward of the Eastern Oregon state hospital.. General Laws of Oregon 1937, Ch. 217.

A jury trial on the main issue of fact, that is whether the plaintiffs were the lawful heirs of the deceased and hence entitled to the fund, resulted in a verdict in their…