Eastern Kentucky Asylum for the Insane v. Cottle

Opinion op the CouRt by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Affirming.

Appellant, Eastern Kentucky Asylum for the Insane, brought this action against appellee, I. N. Cottle, a lunatic confined therein, to subject the latter’s homestead to the payment of the State’s claim for his maintenance in that institution. The trial court denied the relief sought, and the asylum appeals.

*720Appellee was adjudged a lunatic in ,1879. At the time of his commitment he owned a small piece of property in Martinsburg, Kentucky, which was then occupied by him and his wife and their children. Since his confinement in the…