Department of Mental Hygiene v. Renel

This is an action hy an agency of the

State of California (the Department of Mental Hygiene) to recover from the defendants charges incurred by one Jeff Jarija, also known as Jevrum Karijo, as a patient in a State hospital during the years 1951 to 1955, inclusive, aggregating $4,721.61, the sum in suit. The plaintiff’s ease is predicated upon a so-called “ affidavit of support ” which the defendants furnished to an American consul in a foreign country in January of 1948 in order to induce the issuance of a consular visa by which the said Jarija was enabled to enter the country as an immigrant.…