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ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL v. QUINN

[No. 147, September Term, 1965.]

241 Md. 371 (1966)

216 A.2d 732

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL v. QUINN, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed March 16, 1966.

Denied March 28, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel S. Field, III, for appellant.

Amicus curiae brief filed by the State of Maryland. Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, and Loring E. Hawes, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief.

No brief and no appearance for appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.

HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal was brought to resolve the true meaning of the hospital lien law of Maryland, found in Code (1964 Replacement Vol.), Art. 63, §§ 46 through 50. The appellant, St. Joseph Hospital, contends, as it did below, that its lien for the reasonable cost of its services to the injured person attaches to the gross amount of the recovery from the tort-feasor, a contention which the trial judge rejected, finding...

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