Hessman v. State Board of Control

There is no issue of fact in this case. Deceased Susan Tinker was at various times from May, 1886, to July, 1936, an inmate of Mendota state hospital and Dane county asylum. The account filed by the State Board of Control indicates the periods during which she was given care and maintenance.1 The payments to the institutions are *521indicated on this account and are four in number, the first on November 17, 1922, and the last on October 26, 1934. The trial court held that the first two items in the state’s account, going back to 1886 and 1894, were barred by the statute of limitations, and after…