TRINITY MEMORIAL HOSP. v. MILWAUKEE

No. 79-1269.

98 Wis.2d 220 (1980)

295 N.W.2d 814

TRINITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF CUDAHY, INC. Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided July 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Lorna J. Granger of Purtell, Purcell, Wilmot & Burroughs, S.C., Milwaukee.

For the respondent there was a brief by Gerard S. Paradowski, acting corporation counsel, and Dean M. Horwitz, assistant corporation counsel, Milwaukee.

Before Voss, P.J., Brown and Bode, JJ.


BODE, J.

This action arises out of a dispute between a hospital and a county concerning the alleged "dependency" of a person treated by the hospital pursuant to Chapter 49, Stats.

Plaintiff Trinity Memorial Hospital of Cudahy, Inc., rendered emergency medical care and hospitalization to Christine DeGroot from May 14 to May 20, 1977. Ms. DeGroot was admitted to the emergency room by Dr. James Barton, who diagnosed her affliction as viral bracheal plexitis with...

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