Supreme Court of New Jersey November 11, 1901 (State ex rel. Board of Freeholders v. Heppenheimer)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the state comptroller to pay over to the relator the sum of $7,140 for the maintenance of certain insane patients in the county asylum. Its claim to this fund is based upon the following facts: The county of Gloucester established an asylum for the care of lunatics in the year 1861.