Massachusetts General Hospital v. City of Revere

In this action of contract brought in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, the hospital seeks reimbursement of $586.59 for hospitalization furnished to one Mary Barney as follows: November 11 to 19, 1960, at $30.79 per day, $153.95, and January 21 to February 8,1961, at $33.28 per day, $432.64. The only issue at the trial “was whether . . . Mary Barney was a person within . . . [O. L. c. 117, § 24A] for whose treatment the . . . [hospital] was entitled to be reimbursed by the . . . city . . . -” The following facts were agreed. Mary Barney “had no property.” She was “a married woman…