TAMA COUNTY v. GRUNDY COUNTY

No. 00-2108.

648 N.W.2d 83 (2002)

TAMA COUNTY, Iowa, Appellee, v. GRUNDY COUNTY, Iowa, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 17, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley J. Harris, Assistant County Attorney, for appellant.

Carlton G. Salmons of Gaudineer & Comito, L.L.P., West Des Moines, for appellee.

Diane Kutzko and Carroll Reasoner of Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C., Cedar Rapids, for amicus curiae Iowa Hospital Association.


CARTER, Justice.

Grundy County appeals from a judgment requiring it to reimburse Tama County for the medical care, services, and treatment of S.P., an individual involuntarily hospitalized in Tama County, but whose county of legal settlement was Grundy County. The hospitalization at issue in the present case was in a private hospital in Cedar Rapids. Grundy County contends that the county of a patient's legal settlement is only required to reimburse another county...

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