People ex rel. Powles v. County of Alexander

This is an accounting suit instituted by twenty blind persons, and by the administrators of the estates of six deceased blind persons against the county of Alexander, to collect amounts claimed to be due the plaintiffs respectively, under the provisions of the statute entitled “An Act for the relief of the blind,” ch. 23, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 18.071 et seq.].

By agreement the cause was referred to a master who found and reported to the court the amount of blind relief benefits that had become due and remained unpaid to the respective beneficiaries for periods of five…