State v. Romme
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover moneys paid by the plaintiff for the support of the defendant’s intestate in the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Walsh, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $500.89, and appeal by the defendant.
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Action to recover moneys paid by the plaintiff for the support of the defendant’s intestate in the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Walsh, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $500.89, and appeal by the defendant. The State seeks to recover from the estate of Mary F. Webb the several amounts expended by it for her support in the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane for the six years immediately preceding her death, to wit, from October 26th, 1911, to October 26th, 1917. During that period its…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The language of § 7 of Chapter 335 of the Public Acts of 1917 (General Statutes, § 1667), under which this action is brought, is too definite and certain in its meaning to admit of doubt that the intent of the General Assembly was to authorize recovery by the State from persons cared for under commitments to humane institutions, or from their estates, such amounts as, within the six years’ limitation prescribed therein, it had theretofore expended or should thereafter expend for the support of such persons in , such institutions. The provisions of the Act are unmistakable in so defining its…
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