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ST. JOSEPH HOSP. OF NASHUA v. RIZZO

Nos. 94-268, No. 94-269

141 N.H. 9 (1996)

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF NASHUA v. THOMAS E. AND MARY LOUISE RIZZO ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF NASHUA v. VIRGINIA SAVARD

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

May 13, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Welts and White, P.C., of Nashua (Michael J. Fontaine on the brief and orally), for the plaintiff.

Hubbard & Quinn, P.A., of Amherst (Donald F. King on the brief, and Richard H. Hubbard orally), for defendants Thomas E. and Mary Louise Rizzo.

Prunier & Leonard, PA., of Nashua (Gerald R. Prunier on the brief and orally), for defendant Virginia Savard.

BROCK, C.J.

The plaintiff in these consolidated appeals is a hospital seeking to collect from a patient's wife, claiming that she is liable for her husband's medical bills because she owed a duty of support to her sick husband, under the common law necessaries doctrine and RSA 546-A:2 (1974). The Superior Court (Hampsey, J.) dismissed the hospital's claims in each case, and the hospital appealed. We affirm the dismissal...

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