City of Dallas v. Smith

Mr. Presiding Judge Smedley

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

The district court sustained a general demurrer to the petition of Russell E. Smith and wife, defendants in error, who sued the City of Dallas, plaintiff in error, for damages on account of the death of their daughter, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the superintendent and other employees of the city in Parkland Hospital, owned and operated by the city, to which hospital the child, suffering from gunshot wounds, was taken for examination and treatment. The Court" of Civil Appeals reversed…