Clover Hill Hospital, Inc. v. City of Lawrence

This is an action of contract by a private hospital organized for gain and profit to recover for services and treatment furnished one Underwood, a World War veteran, for the payment of which it is alleged the city is liable by virtue of G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 115, § 17. It is admitted that, at the time Underwood was treated at the plaintiff hospital, one Dr. DeCesare was a school physician of the defendant city, and also a stockholder of the plaintiff as well as its medical director for which he received a salary of $1,500. The city charter, St. 1911, c. 621, Part II, § 37, provides that "It…