IN RE ESTATE OF MURPHY v. STATE DEPT. OF PUB. WELFARE

No. 42736.

198 N.W.2d 570 (1972)

In re ESTATE of Jennie MURPHY, Deceased, Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 9, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly & Finley, St. Paul, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., John M. Mason, Sol. Gen., Judy L. Oakes, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent.

Harry H. Peterson, Minneapolis, for Samuel Smilow, Admr. of Estate of Ernest Larson, amicus curiae.

Heard before KNUTSON, C. J., and MURPHY, ROGOSHESKE, and PETERSON, JJ.


OPINION

ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

This is an appeal by the executor of the estate of Jennie Murphy, decedent, from a judgment of the district court determining that the Department of Public Welfare was entitled to recover $8,753.52 from decedent's estate, pursuant to Minn.St.1967, § 246.53, for the cost of hospital care rendered to her while she was a patient at the Hastings State Hospital for the mentally ill from September 19, 1957, to July 13, 1966.<...

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