Methodist Hospitals of Memphis v. Guardianship of Marsh, No. 57417
| Court | United States State Supreme Court of Mississippi |
| Writing for the Court | HAWKINS; ROY NOBLE LEE |
| Citation | 518 So.2d 1227 |
| Parties | METHODIST HOSPITALS OF MEMPHIS v. GUARDIANSHIP OF Stephen G. MARSH, A Minor, Larry Marsh and Tina Marsh, Natural Parents of Stephen G. Marsh. |
| Decision Date | 20 January 1988 |
| Docket Number | No. 57417 |
Page 1227
v.
GUARDIANSHIP OF Stephen G. MARSH, A Minor, Larry Marsh and
Tina Marsh, Natural Parents of Stephen G. Marsh.
Thomas R. Prewitt, Jr., Sara L. Rosson, Armstrong, Allen, Braden, Goodman, McBride & Prewitt, Memphis, Tenn., for appellant.
D. Russell Jones, Jr., Southaven, for appellees.
Before HAWKINS, P.J., and PRATHER and SULLIVAN, JJ.
Page 1228
HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the Court:
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis, a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital, appeals from a decree of the chancery court of DeSoto County holding that it held no valid lien against the estate of Stephen B. Marsh, an injured minor, by virtue of a written instrument executed by his mother, Mrs. Tina Marsh, purporting to grant a lien to the hospital. We affirm the chancellor's finding that no lien was created against the minor's estate by virtue of an instrument executed by his mother, but remand for a determination of whether a two thousand dollar ($2,000) medical coverage was payable directly to the hospital as the beneficiary under an insurance policy.
Stephen was injured while a passenger in a car being driven by another minor, Darrell McCullough, in an automobile insured by Maryland Casualty Company. He was treated at Methodist Hospital in Memphis. His mother, Mrs. Tina Marsh, signed a document called a Hospital Lien in which she agreed to pay out of any insurance settlement or judgment she might recover any hospital bills incurred in treating her injury. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were later appointed guardians of their son's estate. Maryland Casualty settled at the policy limits: $25,000 in liability coverage and $2,000 in medical payments coverage. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh petitioned the chancellor to rescind the instrument she had executed, and made the hospital an adverse party. The hospital answered, claiming that it had a lien on the settlement by virtue of the assignment of the minor's mother and his attorney.
The chancellor read the document and held that the mother had made no promises concerning the money her son had received. The judge decreed that the hospital was not entitled to receive any money from the minor's estate.
On authority of McCoy v. Preferred Risk Ins. Co., 471 So.2d 396 (Miss.1985), the decree is affirmed as to the $25,000 liability coverage benefits under the Maryland Casualty Company policy. Mrs. Tina Marsh, the mother, had no...
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