Billstrom v. Memorial Medical Center

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment in a suit brought under the Texas Tort Claims Act. Appellant, the legal guardian of Richard Kevin White, brought this suit against Memorial Medical Center [Memorial] to recover damages for personal injuries White sustained when he attempted to escape through a security screen and window while confined to the hospital’s mental ward and fell from a height of seven stories to the ground.

Appellant alleged that on February 20, 1977, White was admitted to the psychiatric unit of Memorial Medical Center. At the time of…