Case ID: conn_175/html/0173-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Speers v. Henry C. White, Welfare Commissioner Robert Speers v. Henry C. White, Welfare Commissioner George Speers v. Henry C. White, Welfare Commissioner
    Cotser, C. J., Loiselle, Bogdanski, Longo and Rubinow, Js.
    Argued May 2
    decision released May 16, 1978
    
      Jackson T. King, for the appellants (plaintiffs).
    
      Michael A. Arcari, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, was Carl B. Ajello, attorney general, for the appellee (defendant).
   Per Curiam.

These are three separate appeals from the judgments rendered by the Court of Common Pleas sustaining the determinations of the defendant commissioner that the plaintiffs as legally liable relatives are obligated to contribute to the support of their mother, a recipient of aid to the disabled. On these appeals, the plaintiffs claim that the trial court erred in sustaining those determinations.

In the light of Salemma v. White, 175 Conn. 35, 392 A.2d 969, we conclude that the trial court did act illegally in sustaining the actions of the commissioner.

There is error, the judgments are set aside and the cases are remanded for the rendition of judgments returning them to the commissioner to be proceeded with according to law.