State Ex Rel. Rankin v. Woodbury County

This is a special proceeding brought by the attorney general at the request of the board of control under the provisions of section 3592 of the Code, 1939, to determine the legal settlement of an insane patient at the Cherokee Hospital. The petition asserts that such legal settlement is in Woodbury County and that a dispute has arisen between Wood-bury County and its board of supervisors on the one hand and the board of control on the other, as to such settlement. The prayer was that the court determine the residence, domicile and legal settlement of the patient and that appropriate findings,…