Lakeside Sanitarium v. Dickens

Appellant sued appellee in the county court of Bexar county for a balance of $222.16 due it under a written contract to treat his wife for insanity, and for $16.79 spent by it for laundry and $2.25 for medicine for her use and benefit while-she was a patient in such sanitarium. The case was transferred to Concho county upon a plea of privilege, and, the corporation having been dissolved meantime, Dr. Thomas Dorbandt, sole owner, was substituted as plaintiff. The contract provided for payment by Dickens of $100 for the first four weeks and $45 per week thereafter so' long as Mrs. Dickens…