Michigan Sanitarium & Benevolent Ass'n v. Neal

Civil action, instituted 13 June, 1927, to recover $401.35, balance alleged to be due for medical attention and services rendered defendant's son while a patient in plaintiff's sanitarium from 16 April, 1925, to 8 June of the same year.

On 4 July, 1927, the defendant filed answer and alleged that, in sending her 27-year-old son, W. W. Neal, to plaintiff's sanitarium, she was acting "not only in her own behalf, but also for and in behalf of her said son"; that by reason of plaintiff's careless and negligent treatment her son, instead of being benefited, sustained, as a direct and proximate…