State ex rel. Montana Hospital Ass'n v. Pitch

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by the relator, Montana Hospital Association, from a judgment of the District Court of Blaine County, quashing a writ of mandate.

The record discloses that the relator was the assignee of a claim of the St. Joseph’s Hospital, Lewistown, Montana, for medical care rendered one Carl Guse, also known as Carl Gruee. From the record it appears that Mr. Guse belonged to that rapidly disappearing occupation of sheepherding; that he suffered from a common disease of sheepherders, which resulted in his incarceration in the…