BILLSTROM v. MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER

No. 1467.

598 S.W.2d 642 (1980)

Kathleen BILLSTROM, Appellant, v. MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied May 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tuck R. Chapin, San Antonio, for appellant.

S. E. Dyer, Darrell L. Barger, Kleberg, Dyer, Redford & Weil, Corpus Christi, for appellee.


OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment in a suit brought under the Texas Tort Claims Act. Appellant, the legal guardian of Richard Kevin White, brought this suit against Memorial Medical Center [Memorial] to recover damages for personal injuries White sustained when he attempted to escape through a security screen and window while confined to the hospital's mental ward and fell from a height of seven stories to...

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