Bloom v. Northern Pacific Beneficial Association

STRUTZ, Chief Justice, on reassignment.

The plaintiff, as the duly appointed and acting administratrix of the estate of John E. Bloom, deceased, brings this action to recover from the defendants certain benefits claimed due for medical, surgical, and hospital care rendered to the plaintiff’s decedent which she claims are due under a hospital and doctor care contract which the deceased had with the defendants.

The facts, which were stipulated by the parties, disclose that John E. Bloom, for many years an employee of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, had retired from such employment prior to…