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392 So. 2d 317

Applewhite v. Kreiger

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided December 31, 1980

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1980-12-31

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1993

13 state decisions

Relies on Donner v. Anton · 135 So. 2d 755 - Troup Brothers, Inc. v. State

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Decided 1980-12-31

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HERSEY, Judge.

¶1Bethesda Memorial Hospital, after providing certain medical services to appellant and her husband, retained appellee to collect the amounts due for those services. Such collections were to be divided between appellee and the hospital on a predetermined basis with the costs of any litigation to be borne by the hospital. Appellant appeals the final judgment requiring her to pay for those medical services.

¶2Implicit in the trial court’s determination that appellant is liable for the medical bills was a factual finding that she was the primary obligor. Troup Brothers, Inc. v. State, 135 So.2d 755 (Fla.2d DCA 1961). Findings of fact come to us clothed in a presumption of correctness and that presumption is not overcome by the record before us. In re Estate of Donner, 364 So.2d 742 (Fla.3d DCA 1978).

¶3We therefore hold that appellant was properly found to be liable for the medical services rendered to her and her husband and we therefore affirm.

¶4AFFIRMED.

LETTS, C. J., and DOUNEY, J., concur.
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