COM., DEPT. OF MENTAL HEALTH, ETC. v. Sharrett

In the court below, the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (hereinafter, the Department) sought by petition to require the committee of the estate of Janie C. Sharrett, an incompetent, to pay the arrearage accruing during the preceding five years for the care and maintenance of Mrs. Sharrett at Southwestern State Hospital. The Department sought also an order requiring the committee thereafter to pay monthly for Mrs. Sharrett’s care and maintenance an amount based upon the per capita daily cost of patient care as then or “from time to time in the future” established by the…