Lucas v. Titus County Hospital District

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

The Hospital continues to urge on rehearing that a supplementation of the discovery was not required in this case. The Hospital contends that the rule of supplementation does not apply to fact witnesses and places too great a burden on the parties. We disagree. The rule does not provide an exception for fact witnesses. In a case where the failure to supplement goes to a salient issue in a ease, as it does in the present ease, the rule requires supplementation. In the present case, Standridge testified in her deposition that she told the Lucases’ expert that the chair…