County of Orange v. County of Los Angeles

This is an action to recover from the defendant the sum of $1,903.70, alleged to be the plaintiff’s proportion of $19,032.43 received from the state of California as repayment of money expended by Los Angeles county in providing for the support of aged persons in indigent circumstances between the thirtieth day of June, 1883, and the eleventh day of March, 1889.

A general demurrer to the complaint was interposed' and sustained, and, plaintiff declining to amend, judgment went for defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals.

The facts alleged in the complaint are in substance as follows:

Orange county was created out of territory which had constituted a part of Los Angeles county, under the provisions of an act of the legislature approved March 11, 1889. After its organization was completed commissioners wrere appointed, as required by the act, to ascertain and adjust the respective liabilities of the two counties. On June 9, 1890, the commissioners made a detailed report of the facts ascertained by them, showing, among other things, that the amount due from Grange county to Los Angeles county, on March 11, 1889, was $15,581. This amount was, however, by a “supplemental report…