ROWE v. DEPT. OF MENTAL HYGIENE

[No. 524, September Term, 1966.]

247 Md. 542 (1967)

233 A.2d 769

ROWE v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed November 3, 1967.

Denied November 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry D. Hughes, with whom were Collins & Hughes on the brief, for appellant.

Edward R. Jeunette, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER and McWILLIAMS, JJ., and RUTLEDGE, J., Associate Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


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

This is an appeal from a judgment for $2,681.54 rendered against Phyllis N. Rowe, the appellant, for her husband's medical care and maintenance while he was confined at Spring Grove State Hospital, and later at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital.

Mrs. Rowe's husband, Willis Rowe, was indicted for murder in June of 1958. In November of 1958, as a result of a pretrial medical examination, upon motion of his attorney...

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