Court Opinion

ID: 9672390
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:53:56.140981+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:15.780050
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
Appellant in its motion for rehearing states:
“In evaluating the situation whereby the matter in issue in this cause arose we must keep in mind certain important facts:
“(1) That from the 13th day of December, 1963, the claim in issue was the property and responsibility of Hopkins County Memorial Hospital and Doctor Steve Longino because on such date Mrs. Lela B. Rutledge through her agent, Mrs. Sybil Jones signed her portion of the claim form and assigned the claim to the Hospital and Doctor. Because of this fact the condition of Mrs. Rutledge through the period in issue is of no importance.”
The assignment of benefits to the Hopkins County Memorial Hospital and Dr. Steve Longino shows the signature of Lela B. Rutledge by Sybil Jones, and bears the date of 12/13/64. It is apparent that the assignment to the hospital and Dr. Longino was executed several months subsequent to May 29, 1964, the date the appellants admits first receiving Mrs. Rutledge’s claim.
Appellant further says “the evidence that was introduced showed that the claim form was completed by the insurance agent even before the insured had surgery (S.F. Pg. 10).” The statement of Dr. Bernard E. McConnell (D. Exhibit 3) shows the surgery to have been performed December 16, 1963.
We have re-examined page 10 of the Statement of Facts and find that Mrs. Jones testified that the signatures to the assignment of benefits to the Hopkins County Memorial Hospital and Dr. Steve Longino and the claim form are her signatures and that she signed for Mrs. Rutledge, all of which appears as a part of defendant’s Exhibit 1. The claim form also shows the signature of Lela B. Rutledge by Sybil Jones, but does not show the date the claim was executed. However, as shown in our original opinion, Mrs. Jones testified that it was filled out the next day or two after Mrs. Rutledge left the hospital which was on April 25, 1964.
*853Remaining convinced of the correctness of our disposition of this case in our original opinion, appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.