County of Audrain v. Muir

Suit under Section 497, Revised Statutes 1919, to recover $748.65 from the defendant paid out by the plaintiff county for the care and support of defendant's wife, as an indigent insane person in the State Hospital for the insane, from May 8th, 1917, to the 12th day of January, 1921, the date when the petition was filed. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appealed.

The petition alleges that the wife was duly adjudged insane by the county court of said county on the 18th of May, 1917, upon the applicaton of the defendant, her husband, representing to said court that she was an insane…