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COM., ETC. v. SHERIFF OF NOTTOWAY CTY.

Record No. 781268.

269 S.E.2d 815 (1980)

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia, DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION, Central State Hospital and Piedmont State Hospital v. SHERIFF OF NOTTOWAY COUNTY, Administrator, D.B.N. for Solomon King Jefferson.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

August 28, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Sinclair, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., James E. Ryan, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Martin A. Donlan, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., George S. Cummins, Blackstone, on briefs), for appellants.

James T. Edmunds, Kenbridge, for appellees.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON and THOMPSON, JJ.

POFF, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (the Department) from a judgment denying its claim against a decedent's estate for the unreimbursed costs of care and maintenance of the decedent while he was a patient in State mental hospitals.

Solomon King Jefferson died intestate on December 22, 1977, seised of 50 acres of land. Jefferson had been a patient at Central State Hospital and Piedmont State Hospital since...

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