Lakeview Medical Center v. Richardson

Plaintiff hospital rendered medical services to an indigent person who had suffered gunshot wounds. Following the failure of defendant Danville Township to reimburse plaintiff for the cost of those services, plaintiff brought this action to recover those costs. Without stating the grounds for doing so, the trial court dismissed the complaint and this appeal followed.

This court on an appeal from a successful motion to dismiss must take the facts alleged in the complaint as true. These facts are that, after a stay in plaintiff’s hospital of nearly two months, the costs of treating and caring…