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LONGORIA v. McALLEN METHODIST HOSP.

No. 13-88-094-CV.

771 S.W.2d 663 (1989)

Juan LONGORIA and Maria Longoria, Individually and as Next Friends of San Juanita Longoria, Appellants, v. McALLEN METHODIST HOSPITAL and United Blood Services, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Arroyo, Arroyo, Costilla, Stapleton & Uribe, Brownsville, for appellants.

Leo C. Salzman, Carla M. Saenz, Adams & Graham, Harlingen, Terry O. Tottenham, Fulbright & Jaworski, Austin, Mary Sue Ingraham, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, for appellees.

Before NYE, C.J., and SEERDEN and KENNEDY, JJ.

OPINION

SEERDEN, Justice.

Appellants sued appellees in tort after their daughter, San Juanita Longoria, died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) shortly after her fourth birthday. She had been given blood transfusions at McAllen Methodist Hospital shortly after her birth in 1982. The trial court granted appellees' motion for summary judgment, based on affidavits showing, among other things, that there was no standard testing for AIDS in blood in...

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