Kasparian

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal by defendant from an adverse judgment in an action to recover aid paid by the county of Los Angeles to his father and mother under the Old Age Security Law. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 2000 et seq.)

Prior to June 1,1956, the board of supervisors of the county granted the applications of Bedros Kasparian and Mary Kasparian for aid to the aged and fixed the amount to be paid to them. Beginning June 1, 1956, to and including March 31, 1957, the county paid Bedros and Mary, respectively, $85 a month for four months and $89 a month for six months, a total to both of $1,748, pursuant to the grants. On May 22, 1956, the board established $150 a month as the pecuniary ability of defendant, an adult son of Bedros and Mary, to contribute to their support; and on October 2, 1956, established $155 a month as his pecuniary ability. The county demanded of defendant that he pay it $1,530, the sum of the *539 established pecuniary ability from June 1, 1956, through March 1957. Defendant refused to pay.

The prayer of the complaint was that the county recover the $1,530 and that defendant be ordered to pay the county $155 on the first day of each month as reimbursement to it for…