Montana Deaconess Hospital v. Lewis & Clark County

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court. .

This is an appeal from the findings of fact and conclusion of law of the District Court of the First Judicial District, County of Lewis and Clark, State of Montana, that Mary LouDesonia was not a resident of Lewis and Clark County at the time of furnishing emergency surgical services to her and that she was not a medically indigent person.. Mary Lou Desonia, a single woman, 26 years old, was admitted to the Montana Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls, Montana, on May 22, 1964. She was suffering from acute appendicitis. Surgery was…