Kaiser v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

In 1883 August Freitag was adjudged insane and committed to the state insane asylum, where he remained until 1905, when he died owning considerable property, leaving no one dependent upon him, and having no known heirs. An administrator was appointed, and in 1907 the state brought action against him to recover the expense of Freitag’s maintenance during all the time he 'was at the asylum and recovered a judgment for the full amount, from which the defendant prosecutes error. ;

The grounds on which a reversal is sought are: (1) That the…