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- Title: Universal Health Services
- Author : In the Supreme Court of Texas
- Release Date : January 30, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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This is a suit on a lease and accompanying letter agreements. A group of physicians contracted to lease office space for ten years in a building which also housed a hospital where they would practice. About two years into the lease term, the owners decided to close the hospital for financial reasons and notified the physicians of their intentions. The doctors sued, alleging that the owner was bound by the lease and letter agreements to operate the hospital for the entire term of the lease. The trial court granted a temporary injunction, enjoining the owners from closing the hospital until trial, which was affirmed by the court of appeals. 24 S.W.3d 570 (Tex. App.-Austin 2000, no pet.). However, the trial court later determined that it could not require the hospital to stay open and granted the owners a partial summary judgment on the issue of specific performance. After a jury trial, the trial court rendered judgment for the physicians on a favorable verdict awarding future damages, and the court of appeals affirmed. 63 S.W.3d 537. We conclude that the agreements were not ambiguous; as a matter of law they did not obligate the owner to operate the hospital for the entire term of the lease. Accordingly, we reverse the court of appeals' judgment and render judgment that the physicians take nothing.