113 Ky. 156 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1902
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In August, 1880, Blanche Knighton, an unmarried woman,, was adjudged to be a person of unsound mind by the Jefferson circuit court, and committed to the plaintiff asylum,, where she lias ever since remained at the expense of the-State. This action was instituted on the 13th of November, 1.900, by the appellant against the appellee', Anna M. Knight-on, mother of Blanche Knighton, for $1,100 — 21 years’ board and maintenance of her insane daughter, Blanche' —under section 257 of the Kentucky Statutes, which reads as follows: ‘‘Where patients who have been or may be supported' in either of said asylums, have or shall acquire estate which can be subjected to debt, tlie board of commissioners of such asylum, when reliably informed of the fact, is authorized and directed, in every such case, to sue for, in the name of the asylum, and recover the amount of said patient’s board, at the rate of two hundred dollars per year, or so much thereof as such 'estate will suffice to pay for the time they shall have been respectively kept and* maintained therein, and not otherwise paid for, and by proper proceedings to subject their es
Judgment affirmed.