Village of Robbinsdale v. County of Hennepin

Devanen, Chief Justice.

Action brought by the village of Eobbinsdale to recover from the county of Hennepin the sum of $19,117.75, representing 75 per cent of amounts in excess of one mill on the taxable value of properties in the plaintiff village expended for poor relief' during the years 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1934.

Since 1889 there have been in effect in Minnesota two systems of administering poor relief. In some counties the poor are cared for locally by the town, village, or city. In others poor relief is administered by the county. The system of caring for the poor in counties for which…