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S.C. MENTAL HEALTH COMM. v. SMITH ET AL.

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226 S.C. 175 (1954)

84 S.E.2d 375

SOUTH CAROLINA MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION, Appellant, v. IDA B. SMITH, AUGUSTA LONG TOOLE, and JARRELL M. BROWN, as Administrators of the Estate of Arthur R. Bush, Deceased, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

October 28, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. T.C. Callison, Attorney General, and James S. Verner, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Messrs. Toole & Toole and Thurmond, Lybrand & Simons, of Aiken, for Respondents.

Oct. 28, 1954.

TAYLOR, Justice.

The question presented in this appeal is whether or not the six year Statute of Limitations, Code 1952, § 10-143, is applicable to the claim of the South Carolina Mental Health Commission against the estate of Arthur R. Bush who was a patient in the South Carolina Hospital for the Insane continuously from February 25, 1910, until his death June 26, 1952.

This appeal came to this Court subsequent to but prior to...

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