Union County v. Warner Brown Hospital

Steele Hays, Justice.

When officers of the Union County Sheriffs Department attempted to serve a warrant for the arrest of Daniel Wilson, Wilson refused to submit to arrest and was wounded in a shoot-out with the deputies. An ambulance was called and Wilson was taken to the Warner Brown Hospital in El Dorado where medical services costing $9,724 were rendered.

Eventually the hospital filed suit against Wilson and the county for the amount claimed. Union County moved for summary judgment, contending that its only responsibility was to transport Wilson to a facility where medical services were…