Threlkeld v. Baptist Hospital

Appellee brought this suit against appellants on an account for an indebtedness of the sum of $314.05 for service alleged to have been rendered to appellant Threlkeld while confined as a patient at appellee’s hospital in Alexandria, La., it being also alleged that appellant Gerhardt had guaranteed in writing the payment of the account.

A. L. Threlkeld was an employee of the Vincennes Bridge Company of Vincennes, Ind., at work upon the construction of a bridge near Trout,» in Louisiana, and appellant Gerhardt was foreman or superintendent of the construction of the bridge, and father-in-law of…