State Board of Trustees of Del. State Hosp. v. Boyer

Storey, J.:

This is a suit by the State Board of Trustees of the Delaware State Hospital at Farnhurst against the executor of the will of one of its former mental patients, for the balance due for the care, maintenance and support of the said patient. After the defendant executor filed his answer, he then filed a motion for partial summary judgment. Subsequent to this, the parties filed certain affidavits in support of, and in opposition to the motion. The matter was briefed by counsel and argued before the Court.

From the record, it appears that the patient first entered the hospital in 1931,…