Butler v. Kossuth County

Appellees’ intestate, as a resident of Kossuth county, was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane located at Cherokee, Iowa, in 1913, where he remained until his death on January 7, 1932. At the time of his death, there was due and owing Kossuth county from said decedent, for money paid to the hospital for his care and support as an inmate of said institution, the sum of $3,969.31. On July 29, 1933, on application of the county, as a creditor, E. J. Butler, the then county auditor of said county, was appointed administrator of said estate. The application for appointment was prepared…