IN RE DOCKHAM ESTATE

No. 5530.

108 N.H. 80 (1967)

IN RE RALPH L. DOCKHAM ESTATE.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided March 29, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nighswander, Lord & Martin (Mr. William S. Lord orally) pro se, as administrator.

George S. Pappagianis, Attorney General and R. Peter Shapiro, Assistant Attorney General (Mr. Shapiro orally), for the State.


DUNCAN, J.

RSA 8:43 provides in part that the "state is entitled to recover the expense of care, treatment and maintenance of any patient or inmate at [the New Hampshire Hospital] . . . from the patient or inmate . . . or his estate . . . ." Provisions added in 1965 relate to recovery of the expense of care of inmates at the Laconia State School. Laws 1965, c. 16; RSA 8:43 (supp).

RSA 556:3 (supp) provides that no action against an administrator shall...

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