In Re Lugies' Estate

In behalf of the auditor general of the State of Michigan the attorney-general filed a petition in the probate court of Allegan county in the estate of Benjamin Lugies, now deceased; but who since February 13, 1912, had been committed as a mental incompetent in the Kalamazoo hospital. The purpose of filing the petition was to obtain reimbursement for the State of Michigan for its expenditures in maintaining the deceased mental incompetent person from the time of his commitment to the date of his death, September 29, 1936. On appeal from decision in the probate court to the circuit court the…