Attorney General v. Board of Public Welfare of Wilmington

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the respondents as the board of public welfare of the town of Wilmington to render aid to the dependent children of a certain resident *469of that town and to make payments to her in designated amounts in accordance with the decision of the department of public welfare.

Upon the failure of the respondents to grant her relief upon her application filed with them on April 7, 1950, she appealed to the department of public welfare under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 118, § 8, as appearing in St. 1939, c. 248. Section 8, so…