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SIOUX VALLEY HOSPITAL ASS'N v. JONES COUNTY

No. 13288.

309 N.W.2d 835 (1981)

SIOUX VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. JONES COUNTY, South Dakota, Defendant and Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided September 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin E. Evans of Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, Sioux Falls, for plaintiff and appellant.

Charles D. Kell, State's Atty., Jones County, Murdo, for defendant and appellee.

DUNN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying Sioux Valley Hospital Association (appellant) reimbursement for the cost of emergency care given to a resident of Jones County. We reverse and remand.

On April 11, 1979, Julie Elrod gave birth to a premature infant girl at St. Mary's Hospital in Pierre, South Dakota. A few hours later, the baby was transported by ambulance to Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for emergency care in the...

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