Legal Opinion
State of California, Department of Mental Hygiene v. Copus
Texas Supreme Court
Decided January 15, 1958No. A-6363Published
1Opinion of the Court
309 S.W.2d 227 (1958)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Department of Mental Hygiene, Petitioner,
v.
Dale W. COPUS, Respondent.
No. A-6363.
Supreme Court of Texas.
January 15, 1958.
Rehearing Denied February 19, 1958.
Edmund G. Brown, Atty Gen., Elizabeth Palmer, Deputy Atty. Gen., Chancellor & Wood, Dallas, for petitioner.
Pat Reed, Dallas, for respondent.
CULVER, Justice.
The State of California, petitioner, sued respondent, Dale W. Copus, now domiciled in Texas, for money expended by the State in the care, support and maintenance of his mother, an incompetent inmate of a state institution. A judgment for the full…
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