Collins v. State of Texas

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

Appellant, Martha Jane Collins, as independent executrix of the estate of Ida Pyle Collins, appeals from a judgment that the state of Texas recover from appellant the sum of $10,215.09 for the support, maintenance and treatment of Ida Pyle Collins in the San Antonio State Chest Hospital and the San Antonio State Hospital. Trial was to the court without a jury. No findings of fact or conclusions of law were requested of or were filed by the trial court.

Although the State was the plaintiff in the trial court, this suit involved claims by two state hospitals for reimbursement…