DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE v. FOX


240 S.W.2d 65 (1951)

DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE v. FOX.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 29, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. E. Funk, Atty. Gen., Squire N. Williams, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Hensley & Logan and Jos. P. Pike, all of Louisville, for appellant.

Edwin P. Mengel and Tilford & Wetherby, all of Louisville, for appellee.


CAMMACK, Chief Justice.

This appeal raises the question of the constitutionality of KRS 203.110(2).

John W. C. Fox, administrator of the estate of George Spatz, filed a final settlement in the Jefferson Circuit Court. The heirs of Spatz and the Department of Welfare were named as defendants. The pleadings disclose these facts: Spatz was committed to the General State Hospital as a person of unsound mind in 1924. He remained in the custody of the Department...

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