Crowder v. Department of Social Security

The question presented on this appeal is whether the action of the King county welfare department *783in terminating, as of January 1, 1952, the old age assistance grant of Daisy Crowder was arbitrary, capricious, or contrary to law.

Prior to July 16, 1947, Daisy Crowder and William E. Crowder, her husband, now deceased, were receiving old age assistance grants from the state of Washington. On that date, they mortgaged their residence property to Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, Washington, for the sum of forty-five hundred dollars. They gave the proceeds of this mortgage loan to a son, E. L.…