State ex rel. Department of Finance, Budget & Business v. Thurston County

This action was instituted by the state of Washington to recover from Thurston county the sum of $34,096.18, together with interest, for the care and maintenance of insane patients committed from Thurston county to the western state hospital for the insane, from January 1,1934, to September 30,1937.

The complaint, in so far as material to the questions raised herein, alleges that all of the persons committed *400to the western hospital during the period above mentioned have been adjudged by the superintendent of the hospital to be non-violently insane, and that each of said persons remained…