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SMITH v. PONTON

No. 08-92-00250-CV.

855 S.W.2d 849 (1993)

Robert Lee SMITH, Appellant, v. Dr. A.R. PONTON, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

May 19, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.J. Pope, Midland, for appellant.

Perry Davis, Jr., Shafer, Davis, McCollum, Ashley, O'Leary & Stoker, Odessa, John P. Calhoun, Calhoun & Foust, El Paso, Joel B. Locke, Shafer, Davis, McCollum, Ashley, O'Leary & Stoker, Odessa, for appellee.

Before OSBORN, C.J., and KOEHLER and LARSEN, JJ.

OPINION

OSBORN, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a summary judgment which denied recovery to an inmate of the Brewster County Jail on a claim for damages for alleged medical malpractice by a doctor who treated him for injuries alleged to have been sustained while in jail. We affirm.

Facts

Robert Lee Smith claimed to have been injured in November 1987 when an oven door in the jail fell on him. He was taken by jailers to Dr...

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