Bell v. Umstattd

401 S.W.2d 306 (1966)

Xenia D. BELL, Appellant,

v.

Robert G. UMSTATTD, Appellee.

No. 11378.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

March 30, 1966.

Martin J. DeStefano, Austin, for appellant.

Brown, Sparks & Erwin, Jay H. Brown, Will G. Barber, Austin, for appellee.

PHILLIPS, Justice.

This is a suit for damages brought by Xenia Bell, the appellant here, against Robert G. Umstattd, an anesthesiologist and appellee, for injuries sustained by appellant as a result of appellee's attempts to insert an endotracheal tube between her vocal cords in order to administer an anesthetic prior to surgery. When…