Supreme Court of Texas

Texas does not recognize a common law cause of action for a parent's loss of consortium resulting from a non-fatal injury to a child.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/17/2002
• Decided 07/03/2003
• Published 07/03/2003

Judges

• Chief Justice PHILLIPS delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, Justice SMITH and Justice WAINWRIGHT, and joined by Justice O'NEILL, Justice JEFFERSON, and Justice SCHNEIDER in all Parts except Part II.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Lee Galloway,Mary Olga Ferguson and Richard W. Bass, Thompson & Knight, Houston, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rex A. Nichols, Jr., Rex A. Nichols, Nichols & Nichols, Longview, Karen Debiasse Bishop, Bishop & Bishop, P.C., Gilmer, for Respondent.