St. Joseph's Hospital v. Woloson

Petitioner, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Elmira, New York, seeks an order under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act requiring Peter J. Woloson as Commissioner of Public Welfare of the County of Chemung to pay hospital charges incurred in the course of emergency treatment and care rendered an allegedly medically indigent adult. The respondent commissioner has moved to dismiss the petition on the ground that it fails to state facts sufficient to entitle petitioner to relief under article 78.

On three occasions in the course of an apparently troublesome pregnancy term, petitioner admitted an adult…