Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Dorothea Dix Hospital v. Davis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided March 7, 1977No. 81PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Justice.
Defendant Davis’s appeal raises two basic questions. First, does G.S. 143-117, which requires “[a] 11 persons admitted to Dorothea Dix Hospital ... to pay the actual cost of their care, treatment, training and maintenance . . . ,” apply to persons who were committed to the hospital under the provisions of Article 11, Chapter 122, of the North Carolina General Statutes (as it appeared in the 1964 Replacement Volume and the 1973 Cumulative Supplement to that volume) ? Secondly, if so, does such application comport with the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of…
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