S. D. State Veterans' Home v. Hamilton

COLER, Justice.

The South Dakota State Veterans’ Home, Hot Springs, South Dakota, filed two separate claims for maintenance under the provisions of SDCL 33-18 against the estate of Willis F. Hamilton who died testate on November 7, 1974, while a member of the home. The trial court denied all of the amount of the separate-claim for maintenance of Hamilton’s wife, Maude, who died on August 22, 1962, and all but $25 of the $6,323.33 claim for unpaid maintenance of Willis F. Hamilton which accrued between October 12, 1951 and December 31, 1969, on the basis that the claims were otherwise barred by…