Schaefer v. Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center

Kristin Jolene Schaefer and Eric Paul Wagenhauser (plaintiffs) appeal a district court order granting defendants’ summary judgment on the ground that the claim was barred by limitations. Finding no error in the lower court’s decision, we affirm.

I. FACTS

This case involves the alleged transfusion of contaminated blood into Anton James Wagenhauser (“Wagenhauser”) on May 23, 1983 while he was undergoing coronary artery by-pass surgery at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Houston, Texas (“V.A.”). On February 23, 1987, almost four years later, the V.A. sent Wagenhauser a letter…