In re the Estate of Luxton

Feely, S.

This estate admits liability to the town for two hundred and eighty dollars for food and medical care furnished to the decedent by the town, but disputes its liability to the town for twenty dollars for four investigations made, in connection with such relief, by the town welfare officer, who was in the employ of the town under an arrangement to pay him five dollars for each such investigation, but not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars in any year. It is stipulated that limit has never been exceeded.

The estate urges this twenty dollars is an administrative cost to the town…