Utts v. Short

MARILYN ABOUSSIE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a medical malpractice case tried to the probate court. One of the original plaintiffs, Dorothy Short Walker (“Walker”), 1 settled her claim with one of the original defendants, HCA Health Services of Texas, Inc., d/b/a HCA South Austin Medical Center (“HCA”), for $200,000. The other plaintiffs, now appellees Norma L. Short, Dennie Short, Patricia Ann Cain, Sam Short, and Estate of Clifton Short (collectively, “ap-pellees”), settled their claims with HCA for a nominal sum. After the settlements, Walker and appellees nonsuited their claims…