AIR SHIELDS, INC. v. SPEARS

No. 6026.

590 S.W.2d 574 (1979)

AIR SHIELDS, INC. and Southmore Hospital and Clinic, Inc., Appellants, v. Sherry SPEARS, Individually and as Next Friend of Russell Alan Spears, a Minor, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied November 29, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald B. McFall and Richard A. Sheehy, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, for Southmore Hospital and Clinic, Inc.

Donald R. Hallmark and Susan Crowley, Boswell, O'Toole, Davis & Pickering, Houston, for Air Shields, Inc.

Jim M. Perdue, Andrew L. Todesco and J. Richard Cheney, Miller, Gann & Perdue, Houston, for appellee.

E. P. Dee, Houston, guardian ad litem.


OPINION

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by defendants Air Shields and Southmore Hospital from $1,173,334. judgment against them in favor of minor plaintiff Russell Alan (Rusty) Spears.

Sherry Spears as next friend of her minor son Rusty Spears sued Air Shields and Southmore for damages resulting from permanent blindness sustained by the minor plaintiff as a result of medical care rendered following his birth on April 27, 1970. Plaintiff...

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