WORLEY HOSPITAL, INC. v. CALDWELL

No. 8500.

552 S.W.2d 534 (1977)

WORLEY HOSPITAL, INC., Appellant, v. Sylvia CALDWELL et vir., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

May 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anderson, Henley, Shields, Bradford & Pritchard; L. W. Anderson, Dallas, for appellant.

Buzzard, Comer & Buzzard, Ross N. Buzzard, Maguire & Vanderpool, Pampa, Stokes, Carnahan & Fields, Thomas D. Farris, Amarillo, for appellees.


ROBINSON, Justice.

This is a medical malpractice case in which the jury found that the operating room nurses were negligent in failing to make a correct sponge count. The case has been remanded by the Supreme Court so that this court may rule on the question of whether the jury's refusal to find that the nurses were borrowed employees of the surgeon, Dr. C. F. Sparger, was against the great and overwhelming weight of the evidence.

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