Hightower v. Baylor University Medical Center

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice LANG.

Family members and Mends who visited a hospital patient infected with rabies sued Baylor University Medical Center, the patient’s treating physicians, and the physicians’ professional corporations, claiming that during the time the patient was hospitalized, “little or no precautions were set into place” by appellees to prevent visitors of the patient from contracting the patient’s “unknown communicable disease.” The trial court granted appellees’ motions for summary judgment. Appellants present two issues on appeal. First, appellants contend the trial court erred…