STATE v. LeVIEN


82 N.J. Super. 29 (1963)

196 A.2d 546

STATE OF NEW JERSEY AND COUNTY OF BERGEN, PLAINTIFFS, v. RICHARD C. LeVIEN, GUARDIAN OF GARDNER LeVIEN, A MENTAL INCOMPETENT, DEFENDANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.

Decided December 13, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Arthur J. Sills, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney for plaintiff State of New Jersey (Mr. Eugene T. Urbaniak, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel).

Messrs. Winne & Banta, attorneys for plaintiff, County of Bergen (Mr. Horace F. Banta, of counsel).

Mr. George J. Kauper, attorney for defendant (Mr. Arthur Knaster, of counsel).


G.H. BROWN, J.C.C. (temporarily assigned).

By this action the State of New Jersey and the County of Bergen seek to recover from the estate of Gardner LeVien the sum of $24,992.09 as the actual per capita cost of maintaining him in the state hospitals at Greystone Park and Trenton since 1942 as a public charge. The estate funds are ample to pay the bill.

The following facts have been stipulated. LeVien was adjudged an insane person by the Bergen County Court...

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