In re the St. Lawrence State Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the St. Lawrence State Hospital from an order of the Court of Sessions of Lewis county, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Lewis on the 31st day of December, 1895, denying its application for an order to compel Fred Fowler, as committee, etc., of Christian Holsworth, a lunatic, to support and maintain John Holsworth, an inmate of said hospital, an insane and indigent son of Christian Holsworth.
1Opinion of the Court
Follett, J.:
The liability of fathers, mothers and children of insane adult paupers to support them arises solely from the statutes which are designed to indemnify the civil divisions mentioned therein from the cost of supporting such paupers. (2 Kent’s Com. [13th ed.] 190.) When insane paupers were chargeable to towns and counties, the statutes authorized proceedings for their indemnification (1 R. S. 614), which provisions were incorporated into sections 914 to 926, inclusive, of the Code of Criminal Procedure. It is not asserted that the petitioner in this case, the treasurer of the St.…
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