Supreme Court of Texas

The Good Samaritan statute, which provides an affirmative defense against ordinary negligence for persons who administer emergency care, requires a person to prove that he or she would not ordinarily receive or ordinarily be entitled to receive payment under the circumstances in which the emergency care was provided.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/05/2003
• Decided 06/27/2003
• Published 06/27/2003

Judges

• Justice WAINWRIGHT delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James B. Ewbank, II,Maria Teresa Cantu, Ewbank & Bryam, P.C., Austin, for petitioner., Michael Ernest Archuleta, Bill Whitehurst, Laurie Miche Higginbotham, Whitehurst Harkness Ozmun & Brees, Austin, for petitioners.