Hermitage Health & Life Insurance v. Canter

Raleigh E. Canter and wife Yirgie M.. Canter brought these consolidated, actions to recoyer on a policy of hospital insurance in the defendant Hermitage, Health & Life Insurance Company. The cases were heard without a jury and resulted in judgments for the plaintiffs from which the insurer has appealed, insisting the Court erred in not dismissing the suits on the ground the Doctors Hospital & Clinic of Morristown where plaintiffs were patients is not within the policy definition of a hospital.

The policy-defines “Hospital” as follows: f*:

“ ‘Hospital’ as used herein means an establishment which…