Martin v. Trevino

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by a doctor against an attorney and his client. Originally, Maria R. Trevino, filed a medical malpractice suit against Dr. Thomas L. Martin. Dr. Martin filed a counterclaim against Mrs. Trevino and instituted a third-party action against Mrs. Trevino’s attorneys for filing the malpractice suit against him without just cause. The trial court granted the attorney and his client’s motion for summary judgment predicated on the sole ground that the doctor’s pleadings “fail[ed] to state a legal cause of action under the laws of the State of Texas, upon which…