Gonzales v. Personal Collection Service

Appellee herein filed complaints against Belle Gonzales and Bertie Brown for accounts due the Memorial Hospital of Laramie County, alleging that these accounts had been assigned to it for collection. Both appellants answered, setting up the defense that appellee was not the real party in interest because such an assignment on a contingent fee basis was constitutionally impermissible. Appellant Gonzales further set up as a defense that she had no means to pay for her hospitalization and that under the statute she was to be furnished these services free.

The parties entered a stipulation…