Legal Opinion
Havens v. Tomball Community Hospital
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided May 24, 1990No. 01-89-00936-CVPublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EVANS, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment. The controlling issue on appeal is whether the plaintiffs allegations, if true, establish a cause of action under Texas law.
The plaintiff, Connie Havens, a nurse, sued her former employer, Tomball Community Hospital, the hospital’s director of nursing, Carol Kelley, and a staff physician, Dr. Michael A. Rodriguez, alleging wrongful treatment and retaliatory discharge.
The plaintiff was head nurse in the labor and delivery unit at the Tomball Community Hospital from November 1976; until her discharge on October…
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