Acting Commissioner of Mental Health v. Williamson

This is an appeal by a guardian of an insane person from a decree of a judge of the Probate Court for Bristol County ordering the payment of $5,508.57 to the department of mental health for the care and support of his ward. The petition in the Probate Court was brought under the provisions of G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 123, § 96, as amended by St. 1941, c. 398.1 It is agreed by the parties *53that the ward was committed to the Taunton. State Hospital by an order of a special justice of a District Court, that there is sufficient property under the control of the guardian to satisfy the decree, and that…