St. Joseph's Hospital v. Woloson

Proceeding under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act to review a determination of the Commissioner of Public Welfare of the County of Chemung. The petitioner hospital maintains this article 78 proceeding to compel the respondent Commissioner of Public Welfare to pay medical charges of a patient admitted on emergency. The petition has been dismissed at Special Term for insufficiency on its face; thus, all its factual allegations are admitted by the respondent commissioner. This admission of facts includes the following: that the patient is medically indigent and has no property or income of…