Ark. State Hospital v. Kestle

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

Appellant, Arkansas State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, filed this action against appellee, J. E. Nestle, to recover $1,710.00 for room, board, lodging, and treatment furnished Mrs. J. E. Nestle (wife of appellee) between the dates of March 1, 1959, and October 1, 1960. The Trial Court rendered judgment for Appellee Nestle and this appeal ensued, in which appellant urges three points:

“I. A husband is liable for the cost of maintaining his wife in the State Hospital under the provisions of Arkansas Statutes (1947), Section 59-230; and under the common law he…