Legal Opinion

In RE ESTATE OF MURPHY v. State Dept. of Pub. Welfare

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 9, 1972No. 42736PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Rogosheske, Justice.

This is an appeal by the executor of the estate of Jennie Murphy, decedent, from a judgment of the district court determining that the Department of Public Welfare was entitled to recover $8,753.52 from decedent’s estate, pursuant to Minn. St. 1967, § 246.53, for the cost of hospital care rendered to her while she was a patient at the Hastings State Hospital for the mentally ill from September 19, 1957, to July 13, 1966.

We affirm the order of the district court except to exclude recovery by the state for the period from September 19, 1957, to April 24, 1959, on the ground…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Chapman v. DavisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1951
  2. Mankato Citizens Telephone Co. v. Commissioner of TaxationSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1966
  3. State ex rel. Hilton v. Probate Court of County of FreebornSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1919

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Reiling v. BhattacharyyaNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1979
  2. Lovgren v. Peoples Elec. Co., Inc.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1986
  3. James L. Haugen v. Total Petroleum, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
  4. State v. TraczykSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1988
  5. Sletto v. Wesley Construction, Inc.Court of Appeals of Minnesota · 2007

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