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STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE v. SHOEMAKER

No. 40,545

181 Kan. 552 (1957)

312 P.2d 1082

THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF KANSAS, Appellant, v. CHARLES SHOEMAKER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 3, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles V. Hamm, of Topeka, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., Attorney General, Paul E. Wilson, Assistant Attorney General, and Hart Workman, of Topeka, were with him on the briefs for the appellant.

J. Ashford Manka, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Mark H. Adams, Charles E. Jones, William I. Robinson, Clifford L. Malone, Mark H. Adams, II, and John S. Seeber, all of Wichita, were with him on the brief for the appellee.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

WERTZ, J.:

This was an action by the state department of social welfare (plaintiff, appellant) to recover from Charles Shoemaker (defendant, appellee) under the provisions of G.S. 1955 Supp., 59-2006, the statutory amount allowable for the care and maintenance of defendant's father, an insane patient at a state hospital. From an order of the trial court sustaining defendant's demurrer to its amended petition, plaintiff...

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