IN RE BOHNSTEDT


125 A.2d 580 (1956)

In the Matter of Henrik Wilhelm Ludvig BOHNSTEDT, a Mentally III Person, Now Deceased.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

October 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Hurley, Wilmington, trustee, pro se.

Charles F. Daley, Jr., of Daley & Lewis, Wilmington, administrator, pro se.

Robert B. Walls, Jr., of Coxe, Booker & Walls, Wilmington, for the Delaware State Hospital.


SEITZ, Chancellor.

This is a complaint by the trustee for a deceased mentally ill person seeking instructions as to how he should distribute certain funds in his possession.

Many years ago, Henrik Wilhelm Ludvig Bohnstedt, ("Bohnstedt") a mentally ill person, was committed to the Delaware State Hospital ("Hospital"). He was then an indigent person with no known relatives. No payments were ever made to the Hospital for his care and treatment. Shortly before...

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