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  • HARRIS METHODIST V. DIAZ

      

      

      

      

      

      

    COURT OF APPEALS

    SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS

    FORT WORTH

      

    NO. 2-04-316-CV

      

    HARRIS METHODIST HOSPITAL OF

    FORT WORTH A/K/A PRESBYTERIAN

    HOSPITAL OF DALLAS AND ALLEN

    LEE ROBERTS, M.D. AND SYLVIA DIAZ,

    INDIVIDUALLY AND AS NEXT FRIEND

    OF CECILIA DIAZ, DECEASED APPELLANTS/APPELLEES

      

    V.

      

    SYLVIA DIAZ, INDIVIDUALLY AND

    AS NEXT FRIEND OF CECILIA DIAZ,

    DECEASED AND HARRIS METHODIST

    HOSPITAL OF FORT WORTH A/K/A

    PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF

    DALLAS, ALLEN LEE ROBERTS, M.D.,

    CHARLES THADDEUS STILES, M.D.,

    AND GREGORY M. WESTON, M.D. APPELLEES/APPELLANTS

      

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    FROM THE 348TH DISTRICT COURT OF TARRANT COUNTY

      

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    MEMORANDUM OPINION (footnote: 1) AND JUDGMENT

      

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    We have considered the parties’ “Joint Motion to Modify Judgment and Dismiss Appeal” and are of the opinion that the motion should be GRANTED .  Accordingly, in accordance with the parties’ settlement agreement and without regard to the merits, we vacate the part of the trial court’s judgment awarding attorney’s fees to appellants/appellees Harris Methodist Hospital of Fort Worth a/k/a Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and Allen Lee Roberts, M.D. and render a take-nothing judgment in favor of appellee/appellant Sylvia Diaz, individually and as next friend of Cecilia Diaz, deceased, on Harris’s and Roberts’s attorney’s fees claims.   See Tex. R. App. P. 42.1(a)(2)(A), (b).  Having rendered judgment effectuating the parties’ agreement, we dismiss the appeals of Harris, Roberts, and Diaz.   Id .

    Costs of the appeals shall be paid by the party incurring the same, for which let execution issue.

    PER CURIAM

      

    PANEL D:  LIVINGSTON, DAUPHINOT, and HOLMAN, JJ.

    DELIVERED:  August 29, 2005

    FOOTNOTES

    1:

    See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.

Document Info

Docket Number: 02-04-00316-CV

Filed Date: 8/29/2005

Precedential Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 2/1/2016