Smith v. Snapp

This is a suit on an account (and in no sense an action to impress a .trust) by the operator of a rest home against the estranged widow of a man to whom the plaintiff furnished needed nursing care, medicines, medical bills and gown service over a period of a year. It is a suit for the balance due and the unusual facts present several questions of interest and importance.

Plaintiff operates a nursing home in Fairborn, Ohio and accepted as a patient March 14, 1957, one Loren Snapp, eighty years of age at the time and a man who had just prior to his admission to the nursing home had a leg…