TERRELL v. GARCIA

No. 15174.

496 S.W.2d 124 (1973)

Ardelia TERRELL et vir, Appellants, v. Raul G. GARCIA, M.D., Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Denied June 13, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip D. Hardberger, San Antonio, for appellants.

Paul M. Green, Lang, Cross, Ladon, Boldrick & Green, San Antonio, for appellee.


BARROW, Chief Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment is whether the parents of an unwanted, but normal, healthy child conceived after an unsuccessful sterilization operation on the mother, may recover from the negligent doctor for the financial expenses of the care and maintenance of said child. All other items of damage, such as the medical expenses, as well as the pain and mental anguish of the mother incident to...

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