Legal Opinion
Cantu v. Butron
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided April 18, 1996No. 13-93-505-CVPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SEERDEN, Chief Judge.
Appellees Juan Lopez Butrón and Luis Enrique Cortinas Villarreal, each individually and as representative of his family, sued appellant Mark Cantu, an attorney. This suit involved Cantu’s conduct in obtaining contracts to represent Lopez and Cortinas in litigation that resulted from the 1988 collapse of the Amigo Store in Brownsville. The case was tried to the court. Lopez and Cortinas’s petition asserted facts that might support several causes of action, but the judgment addresses only claims for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.
Cantu questions the trial court’s…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc.Texas Supreme Court · 1985
- Cain v. BainTexas Supreme Court · 1986
- Transportation Insurance Co. v. MorielTexas Supreme Court · 1994
- Catalina v. BlasdelTexas Supreme Court · 1994
- Plas-Tex, Inc. v. U.S. Steel Corp.Texas Supreme Court · 1989
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3Cited by30 opinions
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- Gorges Foodservice, Inc. v. Huerta, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1998
- GXG, INC. v. Texacal Oil & Gas, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1998
- Butron v. Cantu, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1998
- North American Refractory Co. v. Easter, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1999
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