Smith v. Pontius

Citations

• 119 Wash. 211
• 205 P. 381
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 766

Syllabus

<p>Insane Persons (14) — Parent and Child (4-1) — Support or Child. A divorced husband is not liable to the wife for expenses in maintaining an insane child in a private asylum, where the child had been regularly committed to a state institution, and was paroled on the request of the mother who agreed to pay the expense of maintaining the child, and it does not appear that the child received any better treatment or that the removal was reasonably necessary for the welfare of the child.</p>