Wing Memorial Hospital Ass'n v. Town of Randolph

The plaintiff, a Massachusetts hospital corporation, seeks recovery by this action in contract, for hospital services furnished to Mrs. Annie Rice in Palmer, Massachusetts on the strength of an undertaking by the defendant’s town manager and overseer, Robert A. Hancock. On the findings of fact made, judgment was entered for the defendant by the Orange County Court. The plaintiff appeals and assigns error to certain findings and to the judgment.

The findings state that on October 3, 1951, Mrs. Annie Rice, aged 83, "who was then residing with her son, Walter Stocks, at 91 Springfield Street,…