Board of Chosen Freeholders v. Ritson

*667The opinion of the court was delivered by

Eort, J.

This was an action in the name of the chosen freeholders of the county of Camden to recover from the defendant, as administratrix of Elizabeth A. Bigg, deceased, for her board in the county hospital for the insane of Camden county. The deceased was received into- the hospital as a private patient in 1889, and the rate of board was then fixed at $3.50 per week. She died on May 31st, 1900.

At the time she entered the asylum she was married, and her husband, John Bigg, was then alive. He died December 26th, 1898. During the time she was in the…