Legal Opinion
Williams v. Sun Valley Hospital
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided January 7, 1987No. 08-85-00348-CVPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
OSBORN, Chief Justice.
Our opinion and judgment issued on November 26, 1986,. are withdrawn and the following is the opinion of the Court.
Does a hospital treating a voluntarily admitted mental patient have a duty to the general public to keep the patient confined so as to prevent an injury to a member of the general public? We conclude that there was no duty in this case and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
FACTS
The basic facts are not in dispute. On May 13, 1982, a nineteen-year-old male, Alejandro Herrera, voluntarily admitted himself to Sun Valley Hospital. Just prior to…
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- James Scott Brady, Timothy John McCarthy and Thomas K. Delahanty v. John J. Hopper, Jr., M.D.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1984
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