Townsend v. Memorial Medical Center

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

Joyce Lynn Townsend brought this suit against, among others, Memorial Medical Center, a county hospital district, and Robert W. McCuistion, individually and as administrator of the hospital, seeking damages for injuries received when she was raped by a hospital orderly while she was a patient in the hospital. The defendants, Memorial Medical Center and Robert W. McCuistion, filed special exceptions to the plaintiff’s petition and the trial court sustained those exceptions. After the plaintiff declined to amend, the trial court rendered judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s…