Sheehan v. Adams

OPINION

Opinion By

Justice MURPHY.

We must determine in this appeal whether legally sufficient evidence supports a jury’s statutory fraud and DTPA verdict in favor of Mary Lou Sheehan, the purchaser of a twenty-year old house located in Mesquite, Texas. Applying well-established law that a vital fact may not be established by piling inference upon inference, we conclude the evidence was legally insufficient to support the verdict. Accordingly, the trial court did not err when it granted a judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The trial court also did not abuse its discretion in failing to award…