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STATE BY AND THROUGH DEPT. OF MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION v. CRAWFORD

No. 05-88-00645-CV.

771 S.W.2d 624 (1989)

The STATE of Texas, acting By and Through the TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION, Appellant, v. Norma Pruitt CRAWFORD, Independent Executrix of Estate of Cleo M. Fowler, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil A. Lowrie, Denton, Don Harris, Austin, Thomas F. Keever, Dallas, for appellant.

Jon R. Boyd, Mesquite, for appellee.

Before STEWART, ROWE and BURNETT, JJ.

STEWART, Justice.

The State of Texas appeals a take-nothing judgment in its suit under article 3196a of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes to recover reimbursement for its costs of support, maintenance, and treatment furnished to Cleo M. Fowler, deceased, while she was a patient at Terrell State Hospital. The defendant is the independent executrix of the patient's estate. The State urges twenty-five points of error. We agree with the State's thirteenth and sixteenth...

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