People ex rel. Public Aid Commission v. Miller

Mr. Chiee Justice Crampton

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case comes here on appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County, which affirmed an order of the probate court of that county. The judgment appealed from held that the estate of Anna G. Miller, deceased, is liable to the Public Aid Commission for sums paid to her during her life as old-age assistance. The decedent received assistance from 1937 to 1944. Then she inherited property and from 1944 until her death in February, 1951, she received no aid. She died leaving an estate which was sufficiently large to repay the…