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WHITWORTH, ADM'R v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE

[No. 158, September Term, 1959.]

222 Md. 98 (1960)

158 A.2d 765

WHITWORTH, ADMINISTRATOR v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE, STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 17, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace P. Whitworth, Sr., and Horace P. Whitworth, Jr., for the appellant.

Stedman Prescott, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, with whom was C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

HORNEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Allegany County in favor of the Department of Mental Hygiene against the Estate of Harry E. Kooken, deceased, for the balance claimed to be due for maintenance and support while the deceased was a patient at Springfield State Hospital involves a construction of Section 5 of Article 59 of the Code of 1957 and subsequent amendments thereof.

The facts were stipulated...

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