Dittert v. Fischer

Plaintiff, a nurse, is engaged in the operation of a small private hospital at Sandy, Oregon. Between April 14, 1933, and April 27, 1933, defendant was a patient in plaintiff’s hospital and incurred expenses for care, medicine and surgical dressings, in the sum of $53.90 which he failed to pay. On October —, 1933, plaintiff brought this action in the justice court to recover said sum.

Defendant filed an answer to plaintiff’s complaint in which he admitted the services rendered and the value thereof and by way of counterclaim alleged, in effect, that while at the hospital as such patient he was…