Tennessee Hospital Service Ass'n v. Strang

The Tennessee Hospital Service Association, a general welfare corporation, brought this action against Joyce G. Fee, one of its policyholders, and Doctors Merritt B. Shobe and Robert T. Strang to recover $2235.00 which it claims to have paid Miss Fee upon false certificates signed by Doctors Shobe and Strang. The bill is based upon alleged fraud and deceit in signing sixteen separate certificates falsely showing as many operations, as a result of which complainant paid Miss Fee $2235.00.

A decree upon pro confesso was rendered against Miss Fee. The Chancellor found, however, that the doctors…