South Carolina Department of Mental Health v. Turbeville

Lewis, Chief Justice:

This appeal is from an order of the circuit court concurring in the denial by the Probate Court of a claim of the appellant South Carolina Department of Mental Health, against the estate of William S. Carter, deceased, for the care, maintenance and treatment rendered to his wife, Geqrgianna Carter, in a State mental facility. The pertinent facts have been stipulated and are not in dispute.

Georgianna K. Carter and William S. Carter were married on June 3, 1926. About twenty (20) months later, on March 27, 1928, Mrs. Carter was admitted to a facility of appellant on an…