Parkview Memorial Hospital, Inc. v. County Department of Public Welfare

Two separate appeals are consolidated herein. Separate actions were filed in the trial court, one by appellant, Parkview Memorial Hospital, Inc., and the other by Robert F. Kimbrough, M. D., the áppellees being defendants in both cases. Both actions were brought to recover the reasonable value of services furnished one Kendall Curtis, and were consolidated for trial.

Most of the relevant facts were stipulated. Curtis is a resident of DeKalb County, Indiana, and sometime prior to December 9, 1957 was employed as a salesman for a Fort Wayne employer and was discharged. On December 9, 1957 while…