Joint Committee, Grangegorman Mental Hospital v Joseph J. Waters and Michael Egan
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1926 |
| Date | 01 January 1926 |
| Court | High Court (Irish Free State) |
Liability of deceased husband's estate - False declaration - Estoppel - Recovery of maintenance by summary proceedings - Not an exclusive remedy - Statute of Limitations - Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act, 1875 ss. 16 and 17 -Irish Poor Law Relief Act, 1838, s. 53.
The cost of the maintenance of a lunatic in an asylum is a debt due by the lunatic by implication of law and is recoverable out of his property while he is alive or out of his estate after his death. The liability is subject to the provisions of the Statute of Limitations. The maintenance of a lunatic wife in a public asylum is a "necessary" for which her husband is liable while living as a debt, and the husband's estate is liable after his death. The remedy by...
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