Emanuel Hospital v. Marion County

Emanuel Hospital (hospital) brought this action against the City of Woodburn (city) and Marion County (county) to recover the costs of medical care for a patient who was critically burned while committing a crime. Hospital assigns error to the trial court’s granting of city’s and county’s motions for summary judgment and to the denial of its own. It contends that county is liable pursuant to ORS 169.140, ORS 169.150 and ORS 169.165 and that city is liable under ORS 30.795.

The patient had frequently caused problems at Calamity Jane’s, a Woodburn tavern, and had been ordered by the proprietors…