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LAMAN v. BIG SPRING STATE HOSP.

No. 11-96-267-CV.

970 S.W.2d 670 (1998)

Patricia LAMAN, Appellant, v. BIG SPRING STATE HOSPITAL, Wanda Murphy, and Nona Sieler, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Eastland.

May 7, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Brown, Wayne Watson, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Bonnie Lockhart, Joe Dunn, Halley Martha Wallingford, Attorney General's Office, Tort Litigation Division, Austin, for appellees.

Before ARNOT, C.J., and DICKENSON and WRIGHT, JJ.

OPINION

ARNOT, Chief Justice.

Patricia Laman, a patient of Big Spring State Hospital, was sexually assaulted by a male patient at the Hospital. Laman sued the Hospital and two of its employees, Wanda Murphy and Nona Sieler, for negligence with respect to the assault. The Hospital moved for summary judgment based on sovereign immunity; Sieler moved for summary judgment based on official immunity and lack of proximate cause; and Murphy moved for summary judgment...

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