EMMET COUNTY BD. OF SUP'RS v. RIDOUT

No. 04-0254.

692 N.W.2d 821 (2005)

EMMET COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, Appellant, v. William RIDOUT, Trustee of the Erma Anderson Testamentary Trust for Lawrence Anderson, Deceased, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 25, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory R. Brown, Christine B. Long, and Timothy S. Eckley of Duncan, Green, Brown & Langeness, P.C., Des Moines, and Peter C. Hart, Specially Appointed Emmet County Attorney, Emmetsburg, for appellant.

James D. Hart, Estherville, for appellee.


WIGGINS, Justice.

We must decide whether there is statutory or common-law authority supporting a county's claim for reimbursement for payments made on behalf of one of its residents for community-based mental health services under Iowa Code chapter 225C (2001), and whether the five-year statute of limitations precludes the county from recovering any payments made on behalf of...

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