Richardson v. Stuesser
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: J. J. Feuit, Circuit Judge. Appellant’s wife in due form of law was committed to tbe La Crosse county asylum for tbe chronic insane.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for La Crosse county: J. J. Feuit, Circuit Judge. Appellant’s wife in due form of law was committed to tbe La Crosse county asylum for tbe chronic insane. Upon the ground that be was of sufficient ability to maintain her at such asylum but refused to do so, tbe trustees thereof petitioned tbe county court of such county for an order requiring him to pay $3 per week therefor from and after September 1, 1903, so long as she remained therein. Such proceedings were duly bad as to such petition that appellant was required to plead thereto, which he did…
1Opinion of the Court
Maeshall, T.
Several provisions of the statutes seem to have been called to the attention of the trial court to sustain the proceeding, which are relied on now to support the judgment. Each of them will be briefly referred to.
Considerable significance is claimed for sec. 604q, Stats. 1898. That makes the property of an insane person, who is kept in any state or county hospital or by any county otherwise at its expense, liable for his support, and provides a remedy for the enforcement of such liability. It throws no light on the right of the controversy here, since such controversy does not…
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