Whenever a claimant is an infant, idiot, lunatic or habitual drunkard, the court,
or official referee, may order the payment of any award into court and upon such terms
and conditions as justice may require and payment by the county of any award pursuant
to such order shall forever discharge the county from any and all liability thereunder
or any responsibility therefor. Awards in any such case shall be made in the first
instance to such infant, idiot, lunatic or habitual drunkard. Similar orders shall
be made with the same effect whenever conflicting or adverse claims exist with reference
to any award or where the name or names or whereabouts of the rightful claimant or
claimants cannot be ascertained with reasonable diligence. Awards in any such cases
shall be made in the first instance to the credit of a particular parcel or to the
credit of an unknown owner or unknown claimants as the case may require. The court
shall have the power to ascertain who is entitled to any such award, or to any and
to what part of it, and to order its payment accordingly. This section shall be construed
liberally to the end that the county shall not be involved in litigation as to the
ownership of, or right to, any award.
(§ 120 of the Laws of 1948, Ch. 852)
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