Tompkins Community Hospital v. Tomassini

OPINION OF THE COURT

Walter J. Relihan, Jr., J.

A grandfather devised property to his granddaughter, reserving a life estate to the grandmother. He died in 1984.

*43Thereafter, the grandmother and the granddaughter lived together on the property until June 18, 1990 when the grandmother became terminally ill and went to the hospital where she died, two years later, on December 12, 1991. However, six months before her death, she quitclaimed her remaining life interest to her granddaughter.

Some 12 months after the grandmother’s death, the plaintiff hospital brought an action to recover its bill from…