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HARRIS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 19491.

357 F.2d 593 (1966)

James L. HARRIS, Conservator of the Estate of Bertha Kern Clark, Mother of John W. Clark, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 4, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Marshall P. Johnson, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Edwin Shelton, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel for District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Milton D. Korman, Acting Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and DANAHER and BURGER, Circuit Judges.

BURGER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a District Court judgment against the estate of Bertha Kern Clark, of which Appellant is conservator, in the amount of $36,000 for the expenses of maintaining Mrs. Clark's mentally incompetent child in St. Elizabeths Hospital for some seventeen years prior to the date of the judgment.1 The pertinent statute provides:

The father, mother, husband, wife, and adult children of an insane...

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