Huckabay v. Irving Hospital Authority

OPINION

CHAPMAN, Justice.

Appellants Roy Huckabay and Lucille Huckabay appeal the trial court’s reduction of a jury award based on its holding that appellee Irving Hospital Authority d/b/a Irving Health Care System, a/k/a Irving Community Hospital, “IHA,” was a “unit of local government” rather than a “municipality.” In their sole point of error, appellants contend that the trial court erred in reducing the jury award because IHA is a function of the municipality. We overrule appellants’ point of error. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

FACTS

In September 1987, Roy Huckabay underwent surgery…