Johns Hopkins Hospital v. Delhamer

434 Pa. 474 (1969)

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Appellant,

v.

Delhamer.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued May 27, 1969.

June 27, 1969.

Before BELL, C.J., COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

Daniel W. Shoemaker, for appellant.

Frank B. Boyle, for appellee.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, June 27, 1969:

Since the passage of the Act of April 11, 1848, P.L. 536, 48 P.S. §§ 64 and 116, we have held on innumerable occasions that in order to bind a married woman's separate estate for medical services rendered herself and family it must be shown that those medical services were rendered at her request…