Supreme Court of Texas

Because plaintiff, an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, did not establish as a matter of law that it had no duty to reasonably exercise its right to control one of its residents, who murdered a person, the trial court erred in granting summary judgment in plaintiff's favor.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/18/2001
• Decided 10/31/2002
• Published 10/31/2002

Judges

• Justice RODRIGUEZ delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice ENOCH, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O'NEILL, and Justice JEFFERSON join.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Iris H. Robinson,Jay D. Hirsch, Hirsch & Robinson, Philip Andrew Sellers, Fred L. Shuchart, Tina V. Snelling, Tina Snelling & Associates, Houston, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karl B. Brock, W. Burl Brock, Brock & Brock, San Antonio, for Respondents.