Hospital Services, Inc. v. Brackey

SAND, Justice.

This case concerns the procedure involved under Chapter 25-09, NDCC, in the collection of accounts for the care and treatment of state hospital patients. The question presented for our review is whether or not an application for relief on grounds of inability to pay, filed by a patient after litigation is started for collection on his state hospital account, serves as a bar to the continuance of the litigation.

The facts, as they relate to the issue before us, are not in dispute. On 28 October 1972, Loren E. Brackey voluntarily committed himself to the state hospital for…