Hall v. HOSPITAL &C. OF FLOYD COUNTY

The Hospital Authorities Law (Code Ch. 99-15; Ga. L. 1941, p. 241) under which the defendant hospital authority was incorporated was upheld as against attacks on its constitutionality in DeJarnette v. Hospital Authority of Albany, 195 Ga. 189, 200 (23 S. E. 2d 716) wherein the following was held: “The purpose of the constitutional provision (Ga. L. 1941, p. 50) and the statute based thereon (Ga. L. 1941, p. 241) was to authorize counties and municipalities to create an organization which could carry out and make more workable the duty which tíre State owed to its indigent sick; and therefore…