DEERINGS WEST NURSING CENTER v. SCOTT

No. 08-89-00294-CV.

787 S.W.2d 494 (1990)

DEERINGS WEST NURSING CENTER, A DIVISION OF HILLHAVEN CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Velma Ponder SCOTT, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Overruled May 2, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. "Jad" Davis, Kemp, Smith, Duncan & Hammond, Midland, for appellant.

John H. Green, Odessa, for appellee.

Before FULLER, WOODARD and KOEHLER, JJ.


OPINION

WOODARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $35,000.00 actual damages and $200,000.00 punitive damages, founded upon the jury's finding that the Appellant was both negligent and grossly negligent in the hiring of an unlicensed nurse employee who assaulted the Appellee in its nursing home. We affirm.

On November 2, 1986, at approximately 5:30 a.m., eighty-year-old Velma Ponder Scott came to Deerings to visit her infirm older brother...

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