Plaintiff brought this action pursuant to ORS 411.620(1)1 to recover public assistance allegedly unlawfully obtained by defendant. Defendant demurred on the ground that the action was barred by ORS 12.110(2), the two-year statute of limitations applicable to actions "upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty to the state or county ***.” The demurrer was sustained, and judgment was entered for the defendant.

The court erred in sustaining the demurrer. Plaintiff’s action to recover public assistance unlawfully obtained was not an action "for a forfeiture or penalty.” It was in the nature of a claim for money had and received. Therefore ORS 12.110(2) was not applicable. There being no other statutory limitation expressly applicable to this action, it was not time barred. ORS 12.250.

Defendant moved to strike the original complaint in its entirety with prejudice on the ground that her right to have "justice *** administered *** without delay” under Article I, section 10 of the Oregon Constitution was denied.2 The claimed wrongful acts were alleged to have occurred between December 1, 1971, and October 31, 1973; this action was filed in July, 1979.3 The motion was denied. Defendant now cross-appeals that denial as an inter - *772mediate order under ORS 19.140.4 Plaintiff moved to dismiss the cross-appeal as not being from a final order under ORS 19.010. The motion was denied. The state has renewed the motion, and it is again denied.

A motion to strike was not an appropriate way to raise the matter asserted under former ORS 16.100(1). See Harris v. Northwest Natural Gas Company, 284 Or 571, 573 n 1, 588 P2d 18 (1978). We cannot treat it as being in effect a demurrer, because the parties have never treated it as such and because the motion was supported by an affidavit by the defendant containing factual assertions upon which the motion rested. Moreover, even if we were to accept, that a motion to strike was an appropriate way to raise the constitutional issue, as such it was also founded on matters not pleaded. See former ORS 16.030; former ORS 16.710.

Only the trial court file is before us. We do not know the reason or reasons the trial court denied the motions, for the proceedings were not reported. However, the denial is supported by the reasons in the foregoing paragraph and is affirmed.

The judgment is reversed and remanded; the motion to dismiss the cross-appeal is denied; the order subject to the cross-appeal is affirmed.