State ex rel. Robb v. Poelker

There is something basically wrong when the state is permitted to exact compliance from St. Louis with the statutes requiring St. Louis to pay for indigent patients in state mental institutions, yet at the same time the state is not required to comply with statutes which require it to pay St. Louis for the support of charity patients in the city tuberculosis and city mental hospitals.

*581According to St. Louis, the state is obligated to pay it $735,621.54 for care and maintenance of insane patients at Malcolm A. Bliss Mental Health Center and St. Louis Chronic Hospital, as required by Sec.…