Ex Parte Bunting Plastic Surgery Clinic

Bunting Plastic Surgery Clinic, P.C., formerly doing business as Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery Clinic ("Bunting Surgery"), sued Emmett E. Tucker, Jr., and his former wife, Donna K. Tucker, to collect for medical services rendered to Donna in 1988 while she was married to Emmett. The action was based on a contract executed by Donna wherein she promised to pay for the services. Emmett did not sign this contract; Bunting Surgery sued him under the common law doctrine of necessaries, which required that a husband furnish his wife with "medical and hospital treatment for her cure and comfort…