Medical Center Hosp. of Vt v. Lorrain

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• noting that since women now have the same property and contractual rights as men, \the circumstances that led to the emergence of the necessaries doctrine no longer exist\
• noting that since women now have the same property and contractual rights as men, “the circumstances that led to the emergence of the necessaries doctrine no longer exist”
• determining that doctrine making husbands liable to creditors for necessary items provided to wives violated principle of equal protection when applied only to men, and choosing to abolish doctrine rather than to extend it to both men and women
• determining that doctrine making husbands hable to creditors for necessary items provided to wives violated principle of equal protection when applied only to men, and choosing to abolish doctrine rather than to extend it to both men and women
• problems concerning collection of hospital debts from underinsured married persons are best addressed in comprehensive way by Legislature
• women have property and contractual rights equal to men regardless of their marital status

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).