SIMMS v. SOUTHWEST TEXAS METHODIST HOSPITAL

No. 15387.

535 S.W.2d 192 (1976)

Delia Garcia SIMMS, Appellant, v. SOUTHWEST TEXAS METHODIST HOSPITAL et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hardberger, Branton & Herrera, Maverick & Tynan, San Antonio, for appellant.

Wiley, Plunkett, Gibson & Allen, Lewin Plunkett and Daniel Diaz, Jr., Thomas H. Sharp, Jr., Chester H. Brown, San Antonio, for appellees.


CADENA, Justice.

Plaintiff, Delia Garcia Simms, complains of a judgment, based on a jury verdict, denying her recovery for personal injuries which she alleged resulted from the presence of cornstarch on surgical gloves used by surgeons who operated on her for the purpose of removing an ovarian cyst.

Named as defendants in plaintiff's petition were Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital; William F. Pipes, M.D., and Everett M. Boyd, M.D., the surgeons who performed...

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