Michigan Medical Service v. Sharpe

A companion case to this is Michigan Hospital Service v. Sharpe, ante, 357, decided April 5, 1954. The cases involve the same defendants and accidental injuries. Plaintiff in the companion case provided the defendants Sharpe with hospitalization under the terms of a hospital care certificate which contained no subrogation clause. Plaintiff in the instant case provided them with medical and surgical service under the terms of a medical-surgical benefit certificate which did contain an express subrogation clause. For purposes of our consideration the cases are in all other respects identical.

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