State Department of Public Welfare v. National Bank of Commerce

Respondent’s ward, Letourneau, a resident of the state of Minnesota, is a disabled war veteran who in October, 1926, was adjudged insane by the Douglas county court and committed to Mendota hospital for the insane. He was cared for there and at Iowa county hospital until May, 1937, when he was transferred to a veterans’ hospital and supported by the United States government without expense to the state of Wisconsin. Appellant’s claim is for care and maintenance during the time the ward was a patient at the Mendota and Iowa county hospitals. The ward had no property at the time of his…