Knox County Fiscal Court v. Knox County General Hospital, Inc.

PALMORE, Justice.

The question in this case is whether the Fiscal Court of Knox County has the right to assume the management of a county hospital and terminate its control by the directors of a nonprofit corporation organized by the Fiscal Court some years ago for that purpose. We hold that it does.

All of the dispositive facts have been established by stipulation. There is, however, one technical issue arising from the Fiscal Court’s omission to answer a cross-claim asserted against it by the hospital corporation. The only matter in this cross-claim the Fiscal Court would have any reason to…