Stromsted v. St. Michael Hospital of Franciscan Sisters

SHIRLEY S, ABRAHAMSON, J.

(dissenting). The record in this case is almost devoid of facts. Yet the majority fashions a new rule governing liability for necessaries. I dissent.

We know only that Mr. and Mrs. Stromsted were husband and wife; that they were living together at the time Mrs. Stromsted consented to and received medical services; that Mrs. Stromsted committed suicide; that the hospital filed a claim against her estate; that the estate refused to pay the claim asserting that the husband should be liable, not the estate. We do not know anything about the past dealings between husband,…