DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE v. SEVCIK

No. 35450.

18 Ill.2d 449 (1960)

164 N.E.2d 10

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Appellant, v. JOHN SEVCIK, Conservator, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 22, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

GRENVILLE BEARDSLEY, Attorney General, of Springfield, (WILLIAM C. WINES, RAYMOND S. SARNOW, A. ZOLA GROVES, and THEODORE G. MAHERAS, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for appellant.

EUGENE R. WARD, of Chicago, for appellee.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE HERSHEY delivered the opinion of the court:

The Department of Public Welfare of the State of Illinois filed a petition in the probate court of Cook County, seeking to obtain payment from John Sevcik, Conservator of Paul Sevcik, an incompetent, for certain accrued charges for care and maintenance of the incompetent, a patient confined to the Elgin State Hospital. By its petition the Department sought to recover accrued charges...

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