Greenwood Leflore Hospital Comm. v. Turner

Greenwood Leflore Hospital Commission sued Richard B. Turner to recover a sum of money, growing out of an alleged novation. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the trial judge sustained the defendant’s motion to exclude the evidence and direct a verdict for him. From the judgment entered, the Hospital. Commission appeals.

Miss Eunice Johnson, sister-in-law of appellee, was a patient in the appellant’s hospital. Her bill aggregated the sum of $402.50 for the period from January 7th to February 20, 1949. Appellee and his wife were in the hospital on February 26, 1949, when the bill was…