Conant v. State

On August 2, 1937, Joanna Bernard Conant, a widow seventy-eight years of age, who has been a resident of this state continuously from 1887 to date and who has neither income nor property, filed with the state department of social security her application for old-age assistance. This applicant, who admits that she is supplied with the necessities of life (food, lodging and clothing) by her son-in-law and daughter, who are willing and financially able to take care of her, claims old-age assistance as a matter of right under the statute (Laws of 1935, chapter 182, p. 855, as amended by Laws of…