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STATE OF CALIFORNIA v. COPUS

No. A-6363.

309 S.W.2d 227 (1958)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Department of Mental Hygiene, Petitioner, v. Dale W. COPUS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 19, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Atty Gen., Elizabeth Palmer, Deputy Atty. Gen., Chancellor & Wood, Dallas, for petitioner.

Pat Reed, Dallas, for respondent.

CULVER, Justice.

The State of California, petitioner, sued respondent, Dale W. Copus, now domiciled in Texas, for money expended by the State in the care, support and maintenance of his mother, an incompetent inmate of a state institution. A judgment for the full amount sued for was reversed and rendered by the Court of Civil Appeals. 301 S.W.2d 217. We concur in the holding of the Court of Civil Appeals that no recovery can be...

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