Boaz Nursing Home, Inc. v. Recovery Inns of America, Inc.

SOMERVILLE, Justice.

This is an appeal by Boaz Nursing Home, Inc. (plaintiff below) from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, Alabama, dated April 13, 1972, quashing and dismissing garnishment proceedings by appellant against The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, hereinafter called Equitable. The judgment grants Equitable’s motion to dismiss, based on its contention that it is acting as Fiscal Agent for the Alabama Board of Health, a state agency under the State’s medical assistance program known as “Medicaid” and is thus immune to suit under § 14 of the…