County of Santa Clara v. Vargas

Opinion

SIMS, Acting P. J.

Defendant, the surviving husband of a patient who received extensive necessary hospital and medical care, supplies and services from the county-owned and -operated Santa Clara Valley Medical Center during the period from October 8, 1969, until her death December 23, 1969, has appealed from a stipulated judgment which awarded the plaintiff the sum of $10,894.40 and $9.50 costs admittedly due if the defendant failed to establish the affirmative defenses asserted by him.

The trial court denied the county’s motion for summary judgment in an order which further recited,…