McKenna v. Roberts County

Respondent county filed with the administrator of the estate of Timothy J. Donovan, deceased, claim for the amounts expended by the county for the treatment and maintenance of the deceased as a patient in the State Hospital for the Insane at Yankton. After hearing and allowance of the claim, the administrator apealed to the circuit court contending that the statute under which the county sought reimbursement was void; that the county court erred in holding that no part of the claim was barred by the six-year statute of limitations, SDC 33.0232; and that if the statute referred to is…