Dept. of Public Welfare v. Foster

The Mental Health Code provides that patients in State hospitals, and their estates, are liable for the cost of their care, treatment, detention and training. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1957, chap. 91J2, pars. 9 — 19 to 9 — 25; Kough v. Hoehler, 413 Ill. 409.) Jessie A. Conroy is an incompetent and is confined in the East Moline State Hospital. She has an estate consisting of $20,100 in bonds of the United States which is being administered by the county court of Mercer County.

The Department of Public Welfare filed a petition in that court seeking an order directing her conservator to pay $3540 on…