Commonwealth v. Wills' Exr.

Opinion by

Judge Pryor :

In this case we find no express promise to' pay on the part of the testator nor any allegation of fact that would raise an equity in behalf of the lunatic to be supported out of the estate devised. The lunatic was placed on the pauper list as far back as the year ■ 1866, and from that time he has been supported-by the state and for the reason that he had no means of his own. We know of no law under which the parent can be made responsible for the support *964of one, although his child, after the child has arrived at the age of twenty-one years. The lunatic in this case was…