Ridout v. Mobile Housing, Inc.

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.

Appellant filed suit for damages and attorney’s fees when appellee stopped payment on its check given as payment pursuant to a written contract for paving work done by appellant for appellee’s mobile home sales lot. Appellee’s defense was that the work had not been done in a good and workmanlike manner; however, the jury rejected this defense.

In response to the special issue concerning attorney’s fees, the jury awarded appellant $1,500 as reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees for prosecuting the lawsuit against appellee. The trial court on its own motion disregarded…