County of Black Hawk v. Springer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Black Hawk Circuit Court. This is an action to recover of the defendant, as executor of the estate of ¥m. Wood, deceased, a sum of money incurred by the plaintiff in the support and maintenance of said Wood as an insane person at the hospital for the insane at Independence. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBothrock, J.
The facts of the case, are not in dispute. It appears that on the 6th day of December, 1877, the commissioners of insanity of Black Hawk county, adjudged the decedent to be insane^ and a fit subject for custody and treatment in the hospital for the insane; that in pursuance of such finding and adjudication he was admitted to said hospital, and there remained under treatment until his death in July, 1879.
1. INSANITY: inquest of: constitutional law. No question is made as to the amount of the claim made, but it is urged that chapter 2,. title 11, of the Code, under whid1 fhe deceased was…
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