Mallatt v. LUIHN

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• statute gave commission power to determine the liability of relatives for contribution to support of persons receiving old age assistance
• administrative officials do not exercise judicial power in the traditional sense of the word
• statute directing that proceeding to require relatives to contribute to the state’s ■ support of “needy persons” proceed as a suit in equity did not violate right to jury trial, because facts involved in such proceeding were not triable by jury at time of adoption of constitution

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