Beggs v. Texas Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation

BARROW, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment in a suit brought under the Texas Tort Claims Act, Article 6252-19, Vernon’s Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. Appellant, the guardian of Lois Taylor Evans, N.C.M., brought the suit against appellees, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (MH-MR) and the Texas Department of Public Welfare, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by Ms. Evans when Ms. Bessie Herrling, a copatient at the Colonial Nursing Home in Kerrville, doused Ms. Evans with lighter fluid and ignited same.

The Tort Claims Act,…