Lee v. Laitinen

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing an alternative writ of mandate issued by the district court of Yellowstone County.

Petitioners are connected with various nursing homes, and in their capacity as such, applied for an alternative writ of mandate to be directed to the respondent welfare officials, which would require the State Board of Public Welfare to rescind its order setting compensation to skilled nursing homes at the flat rate of $9.04 per day per patient and to pay instead the reasonable cost, pursuant to…