Valdez v. Lyman-Roberts Hospital, Inc.

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment granting defendants-appellees’ Motions for Instructed Verdicts at the conclusion of plaintiffs-appellants’ case. Appellants are Santiago and Guadalupe Valdez, et al (Valdez), and appellees are Lyman-Roberts Hospital, Inc.; Aransas Hospital, Inc.; Mary Murphy and Sonja Rodriguez. Suit was originally filed by the parents and children of Juanita Valdez, seeking damages for the death of their daughter and mother. At the time of her death, Juanita Valdez was eight months pregnant and seeking medical and nursing assistance. The timetables…