COUNTY OF L.A. v. DEPT. OF SOCIAL WELFARE

Docket No. L.A. 22661.

41 Cal.2d 455 (1953)

260 P.2d 41

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Respondent, v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE et al., Appellants; JOHN G. COZAD et al., Interveners and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 25, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Lee B. Stanton, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendants and Appellants.

Kenny & Morris and Eleanor V. Jackson for Interveners and Appellants.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, Gerald G. Kelly, Assistant County Counsel, and John B. Anson, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.


GIBSON, C.J.

Eleven persons who were receiving monthly payments of old age security or needy blind aid complained to the State Social Welfare Board that Los Angeles County was improperly treating such assistance as family income when computing the amount of county relief to be allowed to their indigent husbands or wives. As a result of this practice there was a reduction in the amount of county indigent relief allowed to the spouse of each of the 11 aged or blind...

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