Gaddis v. Smith

417 S.W.2d 577 (1967)

Dorothy GADDIS et vir, Petitioners,

v.

William C. SMITH et al., Respondents.

No. A-11825.

Supreme Court of Texas.

July 5, 1967.

Rehearing Denied July 26, 1967.

Huff & Bowers, Robert W. Gauss, Lubbock, for petitioners.

Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, Max C. Addison, Evans, Pharr, Trout & Jones, Charles B. Jones and David Hughes, Lubbock, for respondents.

HAMILTON, Justice.

This is a summary judgment case, wherein petitioners, a patient and her husband, sued respondents, two doctors, for damages allegedly resulting from leaving a surgical sponge inside the patient's body while performing a…