Eastern State Hospital v. Cottle

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Eeversing.

I. N. Cottle was an inmate of the Eastern State Hospital for the Insane from 1879 until his death in June, 1921. After his death, this action was instituted against his heirs to subject a house and lot owned by him in Martinsburg, Kentucky, to the payment of his board, treatment, etc., for the full period of his confinement in the institution.

Defendants filed answer in three paragraphs at the November, 1921, term of the court. At the following March term they amended the second paragraph of the answer, which as amended plead in substance that the…